Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jungle out there. On the Via Veneto, across 57th Street or up Michigan Avenue, animals that look strangely like women are prancing in herds, and spots swim before the eyes. The designs the women are wearing are not the real thing, of course, but thick faux furs and diaphanous fabric in sexy, primitive patterns. And the customers cannot seem to get enough of them: they're snapping up zebra-stripe blazers, panther-print pumps, fake tiger coats, imitation ocelot boleros and giraffe pants. Says a spokesman for Paris' Dorothee Bis: "It's the theme of the year...
They took. That summer he captured his first tournament, and he went on to win the Michigan high school tennis championship. He also excelled in other sports. He was quarterback on the Monroe High football team, captain of the basketball team and city badminton champion to boot...
...House vote marked a truce between feuding Democrats John Dingell of Michigan, a dogged opponent of auto regulation, and California's Henry Waxman, a champion of even stricter standards for clean air. The compromise proposal would cut emissions of nonmethane hydrocarbons, a key ingredient in smog, which can now average no more than 0.41 gram per mile for a carmaker's fleet. The House action would place a limit of 0.25 gram per mile on all cars by 1996; the output of nitrogen oxide, another source of smog, would be required to fall from 1 gram per mile...
Harvard does not have a cheerleading squad that could rival an Alabama or a Michigan. At Harvard, there are no cheerleaders for basketball, or for hockey--as there are in some schools. Nevertheless, Harvard is moving toward creating a more substantial cheerleading program...
...court's conservative cast is already affecting the kinds of disputes that are brought before it. Observes University of Michigan law professor Yale Kamisar: "The Warren Court took cases where Government won ((in lower courts)). This court seems to be taking cases where Government lost below. It is putting liberal judges back in line." Civil rights and civil liberties groups have taken note. Ronald Ellis of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund admits that, in order not "to tempt the fates," his organization has refrained from appealing cases to the high court and is considering filing more suits...