Word: birmingham
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...paltry excuse for real protection, but it's the best that we could do," said Sen. Thomas F. Birmingham (D-Chelsea). "We didn't have the votes to override the veto Gov. Weld had given...
Despite his complete political victory, legislators accused Weld of failing to compromise. Birmingham described the governor's plan as "pretty extreme." "It is not a good-faith effort to reach a compromise," the senator added...
After replacing his Nikes with a pair of baseball cleats, Air Jordan seemed distressingly earthbound as he made his debut in the minor leagues. When he bought a luxury bus for his team to travel in, critics carped that the whole endeavor was a vanity project. Yet the Birmingham Barons' rightfielder finished the season as one of just six players in AA ball to get 50 or more RBIs and steal 30 bases, proving he can do what he said he was there to do: play...
...talks on Home Improvement. Allen, 41, is hardly the most brilliant comedy star of his generation, though some might call him its most brilliant example of multimedia Hollywood marketing. But few superstars seem less inflated by their success. Allen still keeps a home in an unpretentious neighborhood in suburban Birmingham, Michigan, where he retreats for holidays and other family gatherings. He has been married for 10 years to his college sweetheart, who waited for him while he served more than two years in a federal penitentiary on drug charges. And when he throws temper tantrums...
...politically divisive, its motivation is mean-spirited, and its intellectual premise is fatuous," said Sen. Thomas F. Birmingham '72 (D-Chelsea). Birmingham said many state laws have the effect of depressing property values besides rent control, including restrictions on supermarkets and skyscrapers...