Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...compulsory screening violates good health tactics as well as privacy rights because it leads people to evade help and sends the disease underground. They note that despite assurances of confidentiality, such promises are regularly breached. Says June Osborn, dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan: "Advertent or accidental public disclosure of positive tests has led to loss of insurance, marriage, family ties and even domicile -- in short, everything necessary for life and the pursuit of happiness...
...spectacle of wasted crops spread jitters across the rest of the Farmbelt, especially in northern states that depend on migrants from the Southwest. In the Fruit Ridge region of Michigan, growers are scrambling to find cherry pickers, but the real worry is about the peach crop in July and apple harvest in August through October. Other worker shortages could reach from the tobacco fields of the Carolinas to the poultry farms of Texas...
FOOTNOTE: *The other governors: Kansas Banker Wayne Angell, 59; California Economist H. Robert Heller, 47; Manuel Johnson, 38, a former U.S. Treasury official; Houston Businessman Edward Kelley, 55; Martha Seger, 50, a former Michigan bank regulator. One board seat is currently vacant...
...student project, dozens of people later asked if they could buy copies. Seeing a potential market, Levitan produced a 40-minute video yearbook the following year and sold 100 copies at $45 each. His company now has a roster of 20 clients, including such universities as Princeton, Brown and Michigan. The tapes are fast-paced, smoothly edited overviews of the school year, with scenes of everything from basketball games to campus demonstrations...
...where the growth is -- in population, construction, jobs, incomes. Gwinnett County's population has almost quadrupled, from 72,300 in 1970 to 250,000 today; since 1984 it has been the fastest-growing county in the nation. Oakland County, near Detroit, has got 40% of all jobs created in Michigan since the 1982 recession. Tysons Corner, an unincorporated area of Fairfax County 13 miles from Washington, was once a sleepy crossroads with little more than a gas station; today it contains more office space than either Baltimore or downtown Miami. The Corporate Woods office complex in Overland Park, Kans., boasts...