Word: michael
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...matters as the number of times planes are delayed, accessibility, parking and general amenities. In addition to reporting from TIME correspondents who use airports frequently, we used files from Correspondent Marion Knox, who flew in and out of each of the U.S. Top Ten for the story. Senior Writer Michael Demarest, who compiled the guide, has touched down at 107 airports during his own travels, including all of the 20 included in this special report...
...state rushed into the '70s without breaking stride. Its gross product was larger than all but five countries; were California an independent nation, its per capita income would have been the world's highest. Yet, statistics aside, something was wrong. Michael Davie noticed the change in his 1972 book, California: The Vanishing Dream: "In the very part of the globe where there is the greatest concentration of knowledge and the most power over nature ... many people had begun to doubt whether knowledge and power really did bring worldly happiness. The economic and technological machine was grinding...
...point most observers are agreed: homosexuals are more vulnerable to physical attack because accepting sexual invitations from total strangers is an established part of the gay scene. Says Berkeley Psychologist Michael Evans: "Homosexuals are an easy population to get access to in some anonymous way." Chicago Police Sgt. Richard Sandberg puts it more tersely: "The gays are easy prey...
...Michael Shinagel, acting director of the Summer School, said yesterday the rise in Expos's popularity may be due to the increased number of high school students attending the Summer School this year...
...MONTH, the Massachusetts legislature will consider a bill similar to those that have already cut off Medicaid abortion payments in eight states. At the moment, the legislature seems likely to pass it. Gov. Michael S. Dukakis has said he will veto the bill if it passes, but no politician is completely trustworthy on this issue; the anti-abortion lobby is far too vocal for an elected official to ignore. Anti-abortionists have already begun to lobby for the votes they would need to override the veto, anyway. Public opinion polls have shown repeatedly that a vast majority of Americans believe...