Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Michigan Senator Spencer Abraham, however, protested that the idea was far too complicated. He was the most persistent and forceful advocate of the idea that finally won: a 15% across-the-board cut in income tax rates over six years. The idea was so simple that a button touting it could say simply 15%--whereas, Abraham scoffed, a button for the other plan would have to read AGI-FICA, and even that would need detailed explication...
...fast lanes is always tricky even today. It will be even trickier when you have to change lanes and hand off control to the computer at the same time. Making the transition to true no-hands smart roads, says David Cole, director of the University of Michigan's Office for the Study of Automotive Transportation, is an engineering challenge that will probably take another 20 years to complete. Even then the fledgling industry will face the daunting task of merging these automated cars with highways already jammed with road hogs, drunk drivers and teenagers who think they're immortal...
...figure that is growing at twice the rate of conventional mortgages--is expected to exceed $120 billion this year. Another blistering market: sub-prime cash for new and used cars. Ford Motor Co.'s Associates Corp.; Mercury Finance, based in Lake Forest, Illinois; Credit Acceptance Corp. of Southfield, Michigan; and other lenders this year will provide at least $70 billion to put people with dented credit behind the wheel...
...Grand Cherokee wends its lazy way along the gently curving road, cruising at 25 m.p.h. through rural Michigan's autumnal landscape of gold-and-orange-dappled trees. I'm reclining in the rear of the car with Jeff Zyburt, a Chrysler project manager. As we chat, the Jeep changes lanes from smooth asphalt to rough cobblestone, which sets us passengers bouncing around in the back seat...
Meanwhile, virtually every major automaker is spending heavily to make the dream come true. Chrysler has the 1.3-mile-long test bed I'm bouncing along in Chelsea, Michigan. General Motors is outfitting a convoy of 10 Buick LeSabres that are scheduled to make a test run next year on a modified stretch of I-15 outside San Diego. Five leading Japanese automakers, meanwhile, are members of a government-led consortium that turned a four-mile stretch of new expressway near the site of the 1998 Winter Olympics into a smartway proving ground...