Word: michigan
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...athletic programs, while trying to build up the women's. The argument: it would be financially impossible for any university to create a program for women as elaborate as the two big moneymaking ones, football and basketball. These programs can be immensely expensive. The University of Michigan, for example, spends $800,000 a year on its football team?and grosses $4 million, including $500,000 in gifts from well-wishers. The funds help subsidize the school's other athletic programs. Conversely, if football and basketball were cut down to approximate women's sports in size, the entire system would collapse...
...consumers are maintaining a fast buying pace, largely by plunging into debt: installment debt rose a record $4 billion in March, $3.7 billion in April. But consumer-confidence surveys released last week by the Conference Board, a nonprofit business research group in New York City, and the University of Michigan showed a sharp drop in plans for major purchases, mostly because many consumers think they will need every penny to cover basic living costs...
...delighted to announce that Davidson's successor is John A. Meyers, who for the past six years has been publisher of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. A native of Illinois with a B.A. from. Michigan State's School of Journalism, Meyers served with distinction as a U.S. Marine in the Korean War. His 23-year career with Time Inc. has included posts as TIME'S associate publisher and advertising sales director, as well as the one he will continue to hold as a vice president of the company. A man of modesty and personal warmth who hastens to introduce himself...
Hillsdale College in southern Michigan started admitting blacks and women before the Civil War and has no record of discrimination. It accepts no direct federal aid. Nevertheless, HEW is threatening to cut off federal loans and other assistance to some of the school's students because it will not fill out forms on the status of women at the college. HEW claims to be basing its action on a Justice Department ruling, and the case is now being heard by an administrative judge in Washington. For Hillsdale, resistance is a matter of principle. It has embarked on a fund-raising...
...that he is a Michigan restaurateur, he has picked up on a modish tax idea and applied it to his business. He is handing out rebates to customers. "This is my way of saying thanks," says Han, owner of Pontiac's WE or West-East Ethnic Restaurant...