Word: michigan
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Dole's victories were lopsided and he clearly hoped Buchanan and Forbes would get the voters' message. Dole had at least 669 of the 996 delegates needed to clinch nomination, and he predicted he would go over the top next Tuesday after primary elections in Illinois, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin...
After defeating Nebraska handily in the first round, Harvard fell to Michigan 4-2 in the second, lost the consolation match to UNLV and was eliminated by Tulsa...
...court in Washington, embedded in the sticky rituals of Congress. They are princes themselves, with their own bite-size kingdoms and outsize egos, used to being in charge. Dole's brigade--George Voinovich of Ohio, Pete Wilson of California, George Pataki of New York, John Engler of Michigan and Thompson of Wisconsin--have a lot in common: they are energetic, well educated, modern and ambitious to a fault. They aren't really sure how much power they have over this process; they don't understand exactly how to use it. But that just gets them talking more...
...nomination before the convention. According to intricate computer models by Steve Grand of Wilson Communications, if Dole wins Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, most of Maryland, all of Maine, all of Vermont, half of New York, half of Missouri, most of Florida, half of Texas, two-thirds of Illinois, half of Michigan, all of Ohio and almost all of Wisconsin, he still arrives in California with only 634 delegates. Even if he does better than these models (all of Texas, all of New York), he is still almost 150 delegates short. Only California can put him over...
...percent, and Perot 14 percent. The good news for Dole? A Dole-Colin Powell ticket leads 47 percent to Clinton-Gore's 45 percent. Voters also perceive Dole as doing a better job than Clinton in reducing the federal budget deficit and improving the country's moral climate.PONTIAC, MICHIGAN: After deliberating for nine hours over two days, a jury in the Kevorkian assisted suicide case returned a verdict of not guilty on two counts of assisted suicide in the deaths of two terminally ill patients. Kevorkian was charged with assisting the suicides of Merian Frederick, 72 and Dr. Ali Khalili...