Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Against the struggling Bucs, Batch took charge. He completed nine of his first 10 passes, showing a cool few would have thought possible for a second-round draft pick (60th overall) from Eastern Michigan...
...Virginia Tech 4-0 Beat Pittsburgh 27-7 20. Washington 2-1 Lost to Nebraska 55-7 21. Southern Cal 3-1 Lost to Florida State 30-10 22. Arkansas 3-0 Idle 23t. Missouri 2-1 Idle 23t. Notre Dame 2-1 Beat Purdue 31-30 25. Michigan 2-2 Idle
...complaints of travelers and small airlines have begun to reach Washington. The DOT is about to institute guidelines aimed at preventing "predatory" pricing, and Democratic Congressman John Dingell of Michigan last week introduced a bill to foster more competition in hub cities. Meanwhile, Northwest, which has five more union contracts to negotiate, is hoping to move from its labor problems to winning back angry customers. "We will do whatever is necessary to regain their trust and their business," vows Laughlin. For Northwest, and the rest of the industry, it will be a long journey...
...brash backbencher on the House Judiciary Committee in the early 1970s, Michigan Representative John Conyers was enough of an irritant to the Nixon White House to earn 13th place on the Administration's original enemies list. "Coming on fast. Emerging as a leading black anti-Nixon spokesman," presidential counsel John Dean noted next to Conyers' name. In May 1972, Conyers introduced a resolution on the House floor demanding that Nixon be removed from office for his conduct of the Vietnam War. The measure went nowhere, but Conyers kept at it for the next two years, and when the Judiciary Committee...
...parents. Revamping special-education laws, to give school districts more flexibility in distributing resources, would give a boost to woodwork kids. So would offering incentives for schools to minimize ability grouping or bonuses for schools that put top-notch teachers--who generally instruct gifted children--in middle-achieving classrooms. Michigan State's Schmidt says the predicament of America's average students illustrates the need for a set of "national standards that would articulate what all of our kids need to know." But the first step may be even simpler--as simple as challenging average kids as much...