Elsewhere in the mid-west, the General Motors strike, now in its seventh week, is claiming casualties.
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In the rural prairies of the upper mid-west, Goldilocks's economy has long gone cold.
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Many entomologists in the American mid-west, it seems, are also now on a 17-year cycle.
Mr McCain, in contrast, has won primaries in the north-east, the mid-west and the west.
The vast majority of them are Americans, including many blue-eyed blondes from the mid-west.
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FDIC, banks, the consulate and community groups was launched in the mid-west last year.
Indeed, Bank of America itself still has a few gaps, such as parts of the mid-west.
Like Frank Lloyd Wright, Miss Gordon was born in the wide open spaces of the northern mid-west.
Mr McLaren, a circumspect fellow, is not even a native Texan: he grew up in the mid-west.
But the Middle East looms equally large in one of the key swing states in America's mid-west, Michigan.
The oddity is that the mid-west has relatively few blacks, and is therefore not the Klan's natural turf.
The flat fields to the north have more in common with the wheat- and corn-growing areas of the mid-west.
Every large border town has, loitering round the bus stations, recruiters for slaughterhouses or chicken-processing plants across the mid-west.
Not in the mid-west: he scooped up 100 electoral college votes from the region in both 1992 and 1996.
Indianapolis, the capital and home to Eli Lilly, was the second-fastest growing big urban area in the mid-west in the 1990s.
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It is on course to fall below 50% within a decade, with a disproportionate chunk of those sales concentrated in the mid-west.
During his time, 111 assets were listed and 18 intangible cultural assets were registered, many of which in the North and Mid-West.
Thirty-three of the 48 American banks that offer international remittance services are in the mid-west, and America's bank regulators are encouraging the efforts.
There it could generate a massive load of spores and travel to prime soyabean acreage in the mid-west, destroying most of the American crop.
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If Mr Bush were to lose it, he would need to win most of the mid-west (not impossible, as he is doing well there).
After all, not only is the airline America's biggest freight-carrier to Asia, but it is the only convenient air access for big swathes of the mid-west.
Washington's budget boffins worry that all kinds of other requests will be attached to money for Katrina relief, such as (paradoxically) drought relief for farmers in the mid-west.
The next stop was the frozen north of Sapporo, more like a mid-west American town than Japan, with cool temperatures and an air-conditioned stadium with a spectacular Teflon-coated roof.
Now this issue is going to play hard in the upcoming presidential election, especially in the northern mid-west, scattered with bailed out car plants and their supply chain businesses.
For we rather like being able to drive places, cook food, heat water and survive a Mid-West winter without having to melt the ice on the pitcher each morning.
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He voted in favour of the NAFTA free-trade area in 1993, but on the campaign trail, especially in the downtrodden mid-west, he has promised to review all of America's free-trade agreements.
While some of the slowdown came primarily from a decline in farm inventories, due to the drought in the mid-west, consumer service spending, exports and durable goods all declined as well.
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Ms Middlebrook also brings out the saving naivety of the footloose, hustling mid-West of 50 years ago, full of show people improvising both themselves and their music, with no pasts and no questions asked.
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