Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation. Motorists stopping at gas stations along New Jersey's Garden State Parkway were restricted to $3 maximum purchases, which put little more than three gallons in their tanks and would move gas guzzlers a mere 30 miles. But in resort areas from Cape Cod to Michigan's Upper Peninsula, enough gas appeared available to handle holiday crowds...
Joining Ottinger were Edward P. Beard of Rhode Island, Fortney H. Stark of California, John Conyers of Michigan, the only member of the quintet not to back Kennedy, and Richard Nolan, a onetime protege of Vice President Walter Mondale's, who has organized his own Draft Kennedy movement in Minnesota. The group was opposing Carter, Nolan said, "because we feel betrayed. All our hopes and all our aspirations for a better America in 1976 have resulted in disappointment and despair...
...home-and-home football series against West Point, a rivalry he hoped would give the Athletic Department a sorely needed 'big gate.' He then dropped a surprising bombshell--Harvard and Boston College are currently negotiating to meet each other in what could be Bean-town's football version of Michigan-Michigan State...
...monthly fee would be too high for most prospective patients to afford, unless employers paid most of the premiums. Companies are only beginning to explore the idea. In the Detroit area, GM, Ford, Chrysler and the U.A.W. have joined to sponsor the largest H.M.O. in Michigan, called Health Alliance Plan. Says Jim Walworth, executive director of the plan: "It is our feeling that H.A.P. rates will be 10% lower than the costs of typical conventional medical programs in this area...
...Democrats generally favor the bill, although some agree with the Republicans that it would allow an unwarranted intrusion by the Government into hospital affairs. The G.O.P. also sees the bill as a wedge to open the way for price controls in other industries. Contends Republican Congressman David Stockman of Michigan: "It is a classic Rube Goldberg legislative contraption that will be impossible to implement and virtually make Califano the hospital czar...