Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Worn down, many veterans of Congress have given up the struggle to stay in office. Remarks Michigan Democrat John Conyers, who has served in the House since 1965: "Congress used to be a lifetime career. You died in Congress, or you tried to become Governor or Senator. On a clear day, some guys even saw the White House. Now members are cashing in early. Congressmen are being watched more closely, criticized more and prosecuted more. And the pay is not that munificent. Lobbyists make twice as much...
Wind-chill factors turned scores of cities into veritable frostbite wards. From Michigan to the Carolinas, the cold became so severe that generating difficulties forced widespread cutbacks in electric power. At least 16 deaths were attributed to the weather...
...insurance companies have been trying to please customers by writing loan agreements and policy forms in high school-level English. In Massachusetts, State Representative Lois Pines last year pushed through a bill requiring insurance companies to limit their policies to the simplest and clearest language. The state of Michigan now has an "understandable-language bill" under consideration. New York Governor Hugh Carey has signed a bill, to go into effect this spring, providing $50 fines for failure to use "nontechnical language" in consumer contracts...
...restored birthplace in Kumrovec, swapping hard-time stories. When Jerry Ford had a fur hat clamped on his head by Brezhnev on the frozen plain near Vladivostok, he grinned, then immediately walked over to reporters and asked if they had heard the score of the big game back home: Michigan was playing Ohio State...
...after Union President Thomas Bonner got hold of Harkness to beef up the school's anemic athletic program, Harkness had little trouble lining up talent, not only from Canada but from Massachusetts and Michigan. But to do it, he broke strict New England Small College Athletic Conference rules forbidding a coach to visit a prospect at his home. Cited by the conference last spring, he at first denied the misdeed to Bonner. "I lied," Harkness admits, adding, as if to explain everything, "but I lied to save my hockey program." He was suspended by Bonner but reinstated...