Word: midwesternizing
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...cars on recycled vegetable oil. Last year the country singer launched a fuel called BioWillie, a blend of diesel and vegetable oil that he says is more efficient and burns cleaner than conventional diesel. Any diesel engine can run on BioWillie, which is available at gas stations in four Midwestern states. "It's better for the farmer to grow fuel than for us to go around starting wars to get it," says Nelson, who concedes that cars powered by his diesel blend emit fumes that can smell like French fries. Vehicles that run on grease have crossed the Atlantic...
...color scheme is so dreadfully dreary that you begin to fervently believe that there simply must be sinister doings afoot—hardly the ideal setting for frivolity and wit. Johansson and Hunt give tepid performances, to say the very least. Johansson, playing the stereotypically naïve Midwestern girl, is insufferably proud of herself. Her American accent jars horrendously with the smooth delivery of the British actors, and she spends so much of the film looking saintly that you wonder if she’s capable of original thought. Ordinarily an impressive actress, here Johansson seems more preoccupied with...
Hosting an event is not just good business; it’s much, much more. It can mean everything to a winter haven in northern Italy or a struggling Midwestern city trying to reinvent itself...
...says Fields. "But he expects us to deliver--and told us that." Anne Stevens, who heads manufacturing in North America, is a tough-talking engineer from New Jersey ("You got a problem with that?" she says with a laugh) whose style contrasts notably with Ford Motor's mild-mannered Midwestern culture. Fields and Stevens, often referred to as Mark and Anne in the same breath, are the people Bill will rely on to steer the turnaround...
...fund raisers a night in Washington, lobbyists would have to wait until recesses, making it harder to convert last night's donation into tomorrow's amendment. By lightening schedules, a ban would improve lawmakers' lives but flatten the capital's vast catering and events economy. Still, quipped a Midwestern lawmaker, "it would be the best airline bailout we could ever pass," since more fund raisers would take place out of town. Chance of passage...