1.   And many American laborers, like steelworkers and Midwestern farmers, consider the widening gap as a bad omen for their personal futures.

2.   But its tiny telephone company, like scores of similar firms largely established in the first third of the century by rural Midwestern farmers, has endured.

3.   Consumer groups and Midwestern dairy farmers say a compact would erect trade barriers to cheaper milk from outside the region.

4.   For generations, the fields unrolling across this plain west of Detroit were the purview of Midwestern farmers.

5.   For that matter, Giuliani wanted people to know that he had a lot more in common with Midwestern farmers than it seemed.

6.   Haskell was a Midwestern farmer who knew a lot about bugs.

7.   In CHICAGO, soybean futures fell amid expectations that crop conditions are improving as Midwestern farmers begin harvesting a bumper crop, replenishing depleted stockpiles.

8.   In CHICAGO, soybeans fell amid expectations that field conditions are improving as Midwestern farmers begin harvesting a bumper crop, replenishing depleted stockpiles.

9.   In the United States, they face stiff competition from Midwestern farmers.

10.   January should be a quiet time for Midwestern farmers.