Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee of Economics 10 section leaders voted unanimously over the summer to replace Samuelson's book with an economics textbook written by Richard G. Lipsey, a professor at Queen's University in Canada, and Peter O. Steiner, a professor at the University of Michigan...
Loyal fans at Michigan or Nebraska go out and get drunk after their teams lose. Loyal fans at Harvard go out for a drink, win or lose...
DIED. Bruce Catton, 78, pre-eminent Civil War historian and journalist who won a 1954 Pulitzer Prize for his first trilogy's concluding volume, A Stillness at Appomattox; in Frankfort, Mich. As a child, Catton listened to the yarns of Civil War veterans in his Michigan home town. A World War I veteran who pursued a peacetime career as a newspaperman, he tried to write a Civil War novel when he was 50. "I got 200 pages down, and it was awful," he recalled. "But the factual parts, where the armies were moving, when the battles were fought, that...
...investigation began in August of 1975 and was headed by Theodore Souris, a former Michigan Supreme Court justice who is now a senior partner in the prestigious Detroit law firm of Bodman, Longley, Bogle and Armstrong. The financial aspects of the probe were directed by Norman A. Bolz, partner in the accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand. Before the probe ended, 500 interviews had been conducted, and 50 Ford executives, among many others, had been questioned, Iacocca learned of the dimensions of the probe only from friends and business associates who had been grilled...
...strong proponents of this expansion is Representative William Ford, a Michigan Democrat who comes from one of the three congressional districts that now do not get Impact Aid?but will do so, if the changes are enacted as expected. Says he: "Why make a distinction between the federal employee wearing a postal uniform and one wearing a Navy uniform?" It is on logic like this that Impact Aid will again glide through Congress. Yet until Congress and the public realize that Impact Aid is not funny money but comes from taxes on everyone, there is scant hope of controlling federal...