Word: midwesternizing
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...North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has never been without its critics or its champions. Since its inception in 1994, the deal still provides some of America's most reliable debate fodder, from campaign trails to the break rooms of Midwestern factories. NAFTA's fifteenth anniversary this week comes at a tumultuous time: with U.S. unemployment at a 26-year high and many American companies facing grave operational challenges, the controversy over the free-trade pact is not likely to subside anytime soon...
...alleged crimes were as outrageous as his inflated sense of self, the sort of behavior we expect of Hollywood villains, not Midwestern governors. He was accused not just with conspiring to solicit bribes but with conspiring to solicit bribes from the next President of the United States. He was accused not merely with planning extortion but with trying to force the Tribune Co. to fire editorial writers in exchange for a tax break worth about $100 million. According to authorities, he even threatened to revoke millions in funding for a Chicago children's hospital...
...Office of Health Reform has 26 years of experience in Congress - that's 22 years more than the president-elect. If confirmed, Tom Daschle will no doubt help Obama navigate legislative pitfalls in their efforts to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system. But Daschle also brings to the job the Midwestern manners that made him a likable personality on Capitol Hill. Since leaving the Senate in 2004, Tom Daschle has maintained close ties to Washington, as an employee of a lobbying firm, healthcare policy expert and an early adviser to the Obama campaign. (See TIME's Top 10 Political Photos...
...amount of state taxes on cigarettes. Data show, for example, that California, which was the first state to adopt a public-smoking ban, had the greatest decline in lung-cancer death rates in the U.S. - 2.8% per year from 1996 through 2005, which was twice the decline of many Midwestern and Southern U.S. states. Kentucky, which has low excise taxes on cigarettes and only partial smoking bans, had the country's highest lung-cancer incidence and mortality rates; it also had the highest percentage of cigarette smokers: nearly 30% of its adult population...
...When a friend watched my audition tape, she was physically repulsed. Stunned, she didn’t speak for a few minutes. Instead she stared at me in befuddled rage. “An average kinda guy…Good Midwestern stock?!” she finally yelled, repeating my self-declarations. “You were born in San Francisco. Your fucking favorite book is ‘Ulysses.’ You are not average Joe.” In my defense, I never lied in my audition tape. I did exaggerate my Midwestern “As?...