Word: midwesternizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...make its decision before the election, to show his concern for Detroit's problems. Now that the commission has ruled against the U.A.W.-Ford petition, the initiative has passed from the White House. Congress can impose import curbs, but despite strong efforts by Midwestern Congressmen, sentiment for such action may be ebbing...
Since New York Air had trouble obtaining scarce landing rights at Washington's National Airport, Muse decided to fly his carrier into Tulsa, St. Louis and other less congested Midwestern and Southern cities. Says he: "Our target is where big airlines have cut back, the heartland of Middle America." The new airline will fly fuel-efficient DC-9 Super 80s, and Muse says that he will slash prices by up to 66%. Fares will be low enough to "get people off the interstate highways and onto airplanes." And what about stewardess outfits? A slight smirk ripples through Muse...
...Composer Virgil Thomson explains it, two things have always been able to lure him from his digs at Manhattan's Chelsea Hotel back to his Midwestern home town. First, that Kansas City air: "I like the way it smells, and I get claustrophobic if I stay in New York very long." Second, "the good Missouri food. It is not like going to Cleveland or Pittsburgh. There is nothing to eat there." For his latest homecoming, however, Thomson had a third incentive. In honor of the musician's 84th birthday this month, the University of Missouri Conservatory of Music...
Union members, midwestern and Eastern voters, urban residents and even voters from Carter's own South switched in large numbers to the GOP challenger, making Carter the first Democratic incumbent to be defeated for reelection in more than 100 years...
...free market, or, if that is impossible, no industry will emerge. Either way, we will be safer than we are today." Either that, or an unsafe industry will emerge in a free market, everyone will make buckets of money for a few years, and then a few midwestern cities will disappear in puffs of radioactive fog. Courts...