Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rock: The nation's oldest commercial nuclear plant will close Friday, when operators at Michigan's Big Rock reactor lower the damper rods for the last time. Now comes the hard part: A five-year project to safely dismantle the reactor and dispose of some 442 bundles of spent uranium fuel at the site...
...level, where some social-services departments began matching welfare recipients with participating churches. In Mississippi, Governor Kirk Fordice's Faith and Families program has paired 504 welfare families with 338 churches, which help them with everything from studying for the high school equivalency exam to honing job-interview skills. Michigan's welfare officials have hired two umbrella religious groups to work with more than 100 churches on a similar program. Welfare recipients aren't required to attend church, but the idea is that the church will provide a sense of community and a support network that a welfare office typically...
...MIDLAND, Michigan: Less than a week after a Louisiana jury ruled that Dow Chemical had misled women about the negative consequences of its silicone breast implants, a subsidiary of the corporation, Dow Corning Corp., today offered to settle out of court for $2.4 billion. 200,000 women worldwide each stand to gain between $1,000 and $200,000, but lawyers for the women say the offer short-changes their clients and ignores thousands of additional plaintiffs...
...yesterday after Karen Shoffstall, a 34-year-old New York multiple sclerosis patient, was found dead in a suburban Detroit motel with a note mentioning Kevorkain had helped her. Feiger said many other Kevorkian-assisted suicides had gone unreported because they involved people in Kevorkian's home state, Michigan, and therefore drew little media attention. Michigan issued Kevorkain a cease-and-desist order in April for practicing medicine without a license. He promptly burned...
...much worse could be coming. The tax bill being fashioned between Congress and the White House will bury much of what remains of the 1986 simplification. The proposed changes are "clearly a step back in terms of complexity," says Joel Slemrod, a tax expert at the University of Michigan. "It is antithetical to the spirit of the 1986 tax reform." Not only is the bill that's shaping up likely to make life more confusing for taxpayers, it's also unlikely to make good on promises to encourage investment and savings or to put more kids into college. When...