Word: michigan
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...other way" is still a wincingly painful memory for Democrats: the nightsticks flailing in a fog of tear gas along Chicago's Michigan Avenue in 1968, the armies of the young hurling obscenities across the police barricades; or in 1972, the civil war inside the Miami Beach convention hall as the party broke apart over gay rights, abortion, credentials challenges, tax reform and the candidacy of George McGovern, who delivered his acceptance speech over the smoking wreckage...
...Crucible, which opened in New York at the very beginning of 1953, was the first historical drama by Miller to face the public (he had written Montezuma, a play about the conquest of Mexico, immediately following his graduation from the University of Michigan in 1938; but it has, I believe, never been performed, or even published...
...Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, the District of Columbia, South Carolina, Montana and Hawaii have issued RWB license plates. In Hawaii, what should have been patriotic red has come out parlor pink...
...first of a series that safety crusaders are trying to force. Proposals similar to Proposition 15 will be put to Oregon and Colorado voters in November, and efforts are under way to get anti-nuclear measures on the ballot in at least seven other states: Arizona, Maine, Michigan, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma and Washington. The chances that any will be passed have obviously been weakened by the California defeat. A few months ago, Consumerist Ralph Nader predicted that public opposition within five years would bring all construction of nuclear power plants in the U.S. to a dead halt; that...
...atomic construction is likely. At present, 56 nuclear plants are producing electricity in the U.S.; the Ford Administration, anxious to reduce American dependence on foreign oil, had hoped that 200 "nukes" would be operating by 1985. But the cost of building reactors is skyrocketing: one nuclear plant in Michigan that was originally budgeted at $260 million will wind up costing $1.4 billion. And though nuclear plants can produce electricity more cheaply than plants burning coal or oil, the cost is going up: the price of uranium fuel has leaped from $7 a pound...