Elsewhere in the mid-west, the General Motors strike, now in its seventh week, is claiming casualties.
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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.
Mr McLaren, a circumspect fellow, is not even a native Texan: he grew up in the mid-west.
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.
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.
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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In this, Nancy, who was half-American, with connections in the mid-west and on the west coast, was well qualified, as was her American colleague Margaret Cruikshank, who worked with her in London almost throughout her tenure.
An amazing million or so new voters have migrated to the state in just four years since the last election, bringing with them the political attitudes of the two areas from which they mostly come, the liberal north-east and the mid-west, home of the Reagan Democrats.
His friendliness to blacks, according to Webster Brooks, the political director of the National Black Republican Leadership Council, is intended to increase his share of the black vote in the mid-west, which could provide the margin of victory in the region that traditionally decides the election.
America's way of democracy thus obliges politicians to spend weeks hanging around diners in Iowa and New Hampshire (thanks to the caucuses and primaries) and then later to get to know some of the dullest parts of the mid-west (thanks to the concentration of swing states in the Rust Belt).
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.
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.
Like Frank Lloyd Wright, Miss Gordon was born in the wide open spaces of the northern mid-west.
Eva Restaurant, a 40-seat eatery in the Mid-City West neighbourhood of Los Angeles, is bribing diners with 5% off their bill if they turn in their mobile phones before being seated.
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.
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