Word: michelis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This soulful style has worked well for Herman Miller (fiscal 1989 net sales: $793 million), a designer and manufacturer of office furniture based in Zeeland, Mich. The 66-year-old firm was rated among the ten most-admired U.S. corporations in FORTUNE's 1989 survey of executives and analysts. By another measure, $100 invested in Herman Miller stock in 1975 had grown to $5,156 by the end of last month...
...Hesitated? I printed a letter on homosexuality the first year that I was writing the column, and the publisher in St. Joe, Mich., let us know that he was not running that column. He printed a box on Page One saying there would be no Ann Landers column today because she's dealing with a subject that we feel is not fit for a family newspaper. Of course, everybody in town ran to buy the Detroit Free Press to see what it was that Ann Landers was talking about that the paper wouldn't print...
...impact of possible litigation is felt long before a patient sets foot in the doctor's office. Some physicians, like Linda Bolton, a pediatrician in Birmingham, Mich., try to screen out potential problems. "It really dictates what happens at the office. If I feel I have people who are litigious, I prefer not to take them as patients." In the past, she has fixed her rates only after she has been notified how much she will have to pay for malpractice insurance...
...smallest in a decade. While none of the automakers are scheduling long-term shutdowns, many workers are being idled for the first time since the last recession. Ford, which has run continuous overtime for the past five years, announced layoffs at Escort plants in Edison, N.J., and Wayne, Mich., and will temporarily close Taurus and Sable assembly plants in Chicago and Atlanta...
...John Conyers (D-Mich.), one of five Democrats who voted against the statute and who also oppose a constitutional amendment, offered an amendment to ban cross burnings...