Word: midwesterner
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...Yorker, I can't profess having cared much that the Cincinnati Reds thrashed the Oakland Athletics last week. So some midwestern team with a dumb name beat a bunch of California yahoos...
...government gave fresh evidence of the worsening pain last week, reporting that the unemployment rate climbed to 5.7% in September, up from 5.6% in August, for the third increase in a row. Not since the 1981-82 recession had unemployment risen for three straight months. In several Midwestern and Southern states, the jobless rate has already topped 7%. Since July, the U.S. has lost nearly 500,000 jobs...
...years of belt tightening that was supposed to make companies more competitive, many firms are still cutting deeply into their white-collar work forces. The firings have thrown secretaries and managers alike into an increasingly hostile job market. "I was in shock," says a former top executive of a Midwestern men's clothing retailer who was laid off in August. The dismissal left the middle-aged breadwinner with six months' severance pay and three college-age children. "Right now, companies are paring down just to survive," he says. "But the fact that ((the economy)) hits home and strikes you personally...
...that the New Madrid fault is a failed rift, or break, in the North American plate. Had it progressed further, the embryonic gap might have created a body of water like the Red Sea, which is slowly widening into an ocean. But hundreds of millions of years ago, the Midwestern rift stopped growing. The New Madrid fault today simply marks a weak spot in the thick midcontinental crust, which periodically ruptures under the pressure exerted by the migrating North American plate. It could take 500 to 1,000 years for enough force to accumulate to trigger a really big quake...
...long drive from Wisconsin to Arizona, where he has been told a better life beckons, Wade begins to realize that his parents have not only pulled up stakes but are racing to leave each other as well. The gun that introduces The Steward never goes off. Instead the Midwestern farm boy called upon to protect his grandparents, mother and brother from a lunatic reported to be in the area encounters nothing but a heightened awareness of the tedium of family routines...