Word: michael
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Coach Michael Horn found a good omen in the squadron's victory. "Every time we win the Owen Trophy, we go on to do well in the Northeastern championships," he noted confidently...
Dolores L. Mitchell, Governor Michael S. Dukakis's cabinet co-ordinator, said last week, "There is no question that on most procedural votes, Barney can be considered as a safe leadership vote. He would be the first to admit that if you want to be effective you have to back the leadership on partisan votes except on those matters where he has clearly staked out a position." When liberals unsuccessfully tried to make membership on the House Rules Committee subject to caucus vote instead of under McGee's discretion, Frank voted with the leadership. He indirectly supported Mitchell's statement...
From the day that Real Estate Investor Michael Sparks took over the 468-unit Twelve Oaks apartment complex in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights, he knew what he wanted to do with it: get the children out and turn it into a singles development. At first he told tenants who have children that he would not renew their leases, but a 1909 Illinois statute was discovered prohibiting such a landlord action. Then Sparks decided to levy a $15-a-month head tax for each child in the buildings...
...Economics, Inc., a subsidiary of the nation's largest stockbroker, shows them planning to increase spending an average 16.3%. But, discounting for inflation of 5% to 6%, even the most bullish forecasts would not return "real" business spending to its 1974 peak levels. Says Chase Econometrics Associates President Michael Evans: "You can't get a boom out of that...
...there is an inherent problem in this story. Viewers are asked to root for the wrong side, the Germans, as they go about their nefarious business. But that difficulty is neatly finessed by two factors. The most important of them is casting Michael Caine as the assault group's commander. There is not another leading man on-screen today who so consistently exudes a sense of decency and honor without being stuffy about it. If one is willing to follow him into the jaws of hell, then why not, for a couple of hours, into a gale of moral...