Word: michigan
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Secretary of Education William J. Bennett may have been a candidate for the presidency of the University of Michigan--or maybe...
...first in memory to record a shutout in his opening collegiate contest. Blair, who went on to become second-team All-America and lead the Crimson to the NCAA Finals in 1985, turned the trick three times his first season--against Yale, Brown and Northern Michigan...
With the report due to be released tomorrow, a Republican member of the House panel, Rep. William Broomfield of Michigan, said it was possible that some former Reagan administration officials violated the law in secretly selling arms to Iran and shifting the proceeds to Nicaragua's Contra rebels...
...playing for the basketball title were an elixir, the football teams of Indiana and Syracuse have kept the ball going into the fall. For the first time ever, the Hoosiers have trimmed both Ohio State and Michigan on the same calendar, and this time the Orangemen have gone them one better. On top of beating both Penn State and Pitt, 17 years in the trying, Syracuse is undefeated. It is 1959 again...
Ginsburg also garnered unfavorable publicity over his role as chief of regulatory policy at the White House's Office of Management and Budget in 1985. He helped delay asbestos regulations that were deemed too costly for the number of lives saved. Michigan Democratic Congressman John Dingell accused Ginsburg of destroying drafts of a letter on Government antitrust policy while he was at the Justice Department. Ginsburg countered that the drafts were prepared by his staff without his approval. Without the admission that he had smoked marijuana, it is unlikely that these minor accusations would have derailed Ginsburg's nomination...