Word: michigan
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1.Connecticut 6-0 Beat Wash. 69-48; Beat Michigan St. 82-68. 2. Maryland 9-0 Beat Wake Forest 92-69; Beat Stanford 62-60. 3. N. Carolina 8-1 Beat ODU 63-61; Lost to Col. of Char. 66-64. 4. Duke 7-1 Beat Mich. St. 73-67; Beat N.C. St. 89-69. 5. Stanford 4-2 Lost to Maryland 62-60. 6. Cincinnati 5-0 Beat Oakland, Mich. 106-78. 7. Kansas 5-1 Lost to Kentucky 63-45; Beat Pepperdine 62-55. 8. Kentucky 7-1 Beat Kansas 63-45; Beat Miami 74-65. 9. Michigan...
...killing, though most state efforts to make it legal have not succeeded. Voters in Oregon passed a Death with Dignity Act by a 60% majority last year, making it the only state to legalize assisted suicide. California and Washington defeated "aid in dying" referendums in the early 1990s. And Michigan rejected an assisted-suicide initiative this year by a landslide of 71% to 29%. (No state allows the sort of mercy killing that Kevorkian aired last week.) Courts have largely bowed out of the issue. In 1990 the Supreme Court held that patients have a right to refuse medical treatment...
...Ford was from modest, agrarian Michigan roots. And he thought that the guys who made the cars ought to be able to afford one themselves so that they too could go for a spin on a Sunday afternoon. In typical fashion, instead of listening to his backers, Ford eventually bought them...
After the Model T's enormous success, the two visionaries from rural Michigan became friends and business partners. Ford asked Edison to develop an electric storage battery for the car and funded the effort with $1.5 million. Ironically, despite all his other great inventions, Edison never perfected the storage battery. Yet Ford immortalized his mentor's inventive genius by building the Edison Institute in Dearborn...
...wanted to do everything his way. By the late 1920s the company had become so vertically integrated that it was completely self-sufficient. Ford controlled rubber plantations in Brazil, a fleet of ships, a railroad, 16 coal mines, and thousands of acres of timberland and iron-ore mines in Michigan and Minnesota. All this was combined at the gigantic River Rouge plant, a sprawling city of a place where more than 100,000 men worked...