Word: michigans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...score a big preconvention boost when the nominee announces his decision. While his aides have yet to compile even the slimmest of dossiers on the likely prospects, an organizing principle is emerging. The race will be won and lost in the middle-class suburbs and ethnic enclaves of Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and New Jersey. Holding those precincts means winning over independent voters who went for Bush in 1988 and Clinton in 1992 and delivered the House of Representatives to Gingrich in 1994. Whether a Midwesterner is vital isn't yet certain. But in general terms, young is preferable...
...Fumbler. Michigan's Engler has learned enough in the past two months to write a quickie book that might be called "How Not to Win the Vice-Presidential Nomination." First, the two-term Governor waited until Dole had almost clinched the nomination to endorse him. Next, Engler angered Dole by making the endorsement with no warning while he was in Washington and Dole was in, of all places, Michigan. Then Engler presumptuously volunteered to reporters that he would make a good Vice President...
...into a government shutdown during the budget talks, a move from which the party has yet to recover. Outgoing, Catholic and an excellent campaigner, Engler avoided the draft because he was categorized I-Y for being 2 lbs. overweight in one exam and 10 lbs. in another. Even so, Michigan remains so vital to Dole that he recently auditioned Engler; the Senator and the Governor made joint TV appearances, conveyed by satellite so that Dole could rate Engler's performance...
...three days, Susan and Anthony Provenzino sat grim-faced in the paneled courtroom of St. Clair Shores, Michigan, their emotions ricocheting between anger, bewilderment and remorse as they pleaded for understanding. Pressed by city attorney Robert Ihrie to explain why they had supported the release of their son Alex, 16, from juvenile custody last summer, even though he had committed several burglaries and attacked his father with a golf club, Susan snapped, "I didn't want him in a youth home with murderers and rapists." Had she sought counseling for Alex? "I couldn't force him to go," Susan said...
...strict father's temper. Unfortunately, liars who indulge their vice publicly and get caught don't have many career options. "I'm in a situation where cereal has become a viable dinner choice," says Cooke, who is divorced and works part time at a department store in Kalamazoo, Michigan, for $6.15 an hour. She's talking now, says Sager, to "retrieve her name from the files of infamy," and to rev up her failed writing career. "What I did was horrible," says Cooke. "But I don't think that in this particular case the punishment has fit the crime...