Word: midwesterners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Support. Environmental groups report that they are steadily gaining new support from citizens who never showed much interest before, especially in regions where new energy developments are being proposed. In many cases, immediate economic arguments are replacing the old environmental cry that pristine nature must be protected. Midwestern farmers often oppose proposed nuclear plants, partly because they fear radioactive accidents and partly because the power companies take good farm land for power-plant sites by eminent domain. Some 65% of the residents polled in Durham, N.H., opposed construction of a refinery. Their main reason: the coastline is too valuable...
Crimson coach Billy Cleary has been in the habit of alternating goaltenders Jim Murray and John Aiken in the net the season. According to Cleary, this practice is expected to continue throughout the Midwestern swing...
History is full of such expensive errors, of cities and civilizations brought low because their leaders failed to exercise even ordinary foresight. Any good agronomist, for example, could have predicted that overplanting of semiarid land would lead to the vast Midwestern dust bowls of the '30s. Anybody with ordinary intelligence could have discerned in the '50s the potential for violence that resulted in the black explosions of the '60s. No disaster, however, has been more visible from a distance-or caught people more off guard-than the energy crisis. The failure to head it off, despite loud...
...HYPOTHETICAL situation: a pivotal Midwestern district in the United Steelworkers Union is holding an election for the district presidency. A young black reformer is running against the old boss's hand-picked successor, and the race has attracted national attention. Time magazine sends its Chicago correspondent out to cover the story. The correspondent spends two days in the district, interviews the wrong people and misspells half the important names. The weekly newsmagazine's New York headquarters adds further errors in editing, and steelworkers glancing later at the brief story gape in amazement. Time has a circulation of over 4 million...
...swiftly apparent, though, that nothing comes easily to Jane Howard except accomplishment. It has taken her the better part of two decades, however, to disentangle herself from childhood and, in particular, from the ghost of a conventional, cheery, saintly, disapproving Midwestern mother. Nor has it been easy for her, despite much consciousness raising, to wear female adulthood with comfort. She is a chronic stocktaker, and it is fairly clear that what she saw when she began to put this interim report together gave her no great pleasure: a good reporter, a financial success, a useful friend, housebroken house guest, amusing...