Word: michigan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Some economists believe most service companies, including fast-food chains and hotels, will be forced to raise wages over the next few years. Says Abel Feinstein, an economist at the Michigan Employment Security Commission: "There is no shortage of people to fill these service-sector jobs. If you increase wages and improve the working conditions, you won't have a shortage anymore...
...court proved again how frustratingly independent it can be, decisively upholding the special prosecutors who have bedeviled Reagan's second term. In the process, it also cleared the way for the upcoming trials of the Iran- contra Four: Oliver North, John Poindexter, Richard Secord and Albert Hakim. Says Michigan Democratic Senator Carl Levin, who sponsored the independent- counsel legislation: "It's a slam-dunk decision...
Surrogate parenthood has often been denounced as baby selling, and five states have declared surrogate contracts unenforceable. But only in Michigan is surrogacy deemed a crime. Under a law signed by Governor James Blanchard last week, people entering into a surrogate contract for pay, and spouses who condone such arrangements, can be fined $10,000 and jailed for a year. Lawyers and other brokers who promote surrogacy contracts are branded felons; they can be fined $50,000 and imprisoned for five years. Surrogate arrangements involving no fee remain legal. Surrogacy Lawyer Noel Keane and the American Civil Liberties Union...
...thatDukakis would fare well next November by focusingon a vice presidential nominee who could help himwin major industrial states in the Northeast andMidwest. Kalb, who hosted a series of hour-longinterviews with the primary candidates earlierthis year, said Dukakis has "got to win" New York,New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan andIllinois to have a reasonable chance at beatingBush...
...showing in the primaries and caucuses were by all accounts historic, and in real terms, impressive. Jackson fared better than Dukakis on Super Tuesday, winning a host of Southern states including Virginia. He won caucuses in states with small Black populations, such as Alaska and then, stunningly, Michigan--trouncing the Massachusetts governor by a nearly two-to-one margin there...