Word: michigan
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Such talk leaves little space for people like Dave Richards, 37, of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a target shooter who joined the N.R.A. to support the rights of sportsmen. Two years ago, Richards quit after concluding that the N.R.A. had become "more about lobbying for extremes than the mainstream people who just want to go hunting." A large number of those mainstream folks are now ex-members. Currently, four of every 10 members drop out when it comes time to renew their $35 annual membership. "All the smaller voices like mine," says hunter Ray Guzman, "aren't being heard." Speaking with...
Albert Meyer, an accounting professor at Spring Arbor College in Michigan, did not believe in Bennett, however, and therein lies the tale of how an elaborate Ponzi scheme came unraveled, leaving Philadelphia, Wall Street and the cozy world of nonprofit organizations reeling in embarrassment...
Beyond the hot rhetoric, political pressures in both countries threatened to bar any immediate settlement. For a struggling President Clinton, the get-tough sanctions promised to shore up his support in crucial industrial states such as Michigan and Ohio. "No U.S. politician ever lost at the polls by bashing Japan," says trade expert Jagdish Bhagwati, a Columbia University economist. And the political price? "So we lose the Lexus and Infiniti vote," shrugs a senior Administration official. "It's a risk we're prepared to take...
...politics) and descriptive inclusion (having more professors of color) apparently has quantifiable disadvantages as well. The most recent U.S. News and World Report guide to the best graduate schools ranked Harvard's department number one in every sub-field of political science--except for American government. The University of Michigan, the department that surpassed Harvard's, has more than ten minority faculty as well as a strong emphasis on minority voting rights...
Mark E. Sadak Munising, Michigan...