Word: michigan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...aren't California. We're not Texas and we're not Michigan. We're a different state," said the governor in that interview. "We do happen to have some of the finest institutions in the world. And I don't think it makes sense for us to duplicate that...
...This cuts close to the real contrast between Dole and Bush: the small-town entrepreneur vs. the no-fingerprints manager. Bush's strengths are in precisely those areas that elude Dole, such as organizational competence. That was evident on Friday in Michigan, where the Bush forces teamed up with Kemp's to outmaneuver Robertson at the Republican state convention. Bush wound up with 37 disputed delegates and Kemp with 32, while Robertson's supporters cried foul and walked out after getting only 8. Dole skipped the contest...
...didn't even know there was a choice to beadmitted for the spring semester," said formerUniversity of Michigan student Catalina Girona'90, who applied last February for Septemberadmission...
...application has ever been denied. But Detroit presents an unusual case. By far the biggest consolidation ever proposed (worth $300 million in annual advertising and circulation revenues), the Detroit J.O.A. would last for an initial term of 100 years, twice the life-span of most others. The result, warns Michigan State Senator John F. Kelly, would be a dangerous precedent. "If the J.O.A. is approved in Detroit," he declares, "there's no way any other J.O.A. in any other city in the country could be denied...
...winner both for private-eye fiction and for westerns, Estleman is, fittingly, never better than when describing a road and vehicles in combat on it. He is almost as good at evoking places, whether a sterile office complex, a blind-pig saloon in a ghetto, a shack in a Michigan version of Dogpatch or a patio in a smug suburb. His ear for diverse patois seems impeccable, and so does the inner mechanism that tells him when an unlikely escape can be plausible or when violence must instead turn into calamity. Downriver (Houghton Mifflin; 210 pages; $15.95) offsets those virtues...