Word: michigans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...average cost of a bowl of cereal, including milk, is about 35'. Yet shoppers who watch their families gobble up a $5 box of cereal in a couple of sittings still consider the cost to be considerable. Ann Rhodes, a mother with three children at home in Waterford Township, Michigan, says of her family, which can shred seven boxes of cereal weekly, "The 14-year-old will eat a whole box if you let him, and the 11-year-old isn't far behind. It has really gotten expensive. Cutting prices would get us to buy more...
...soon-to-be-released study by Debora Sullivan and Robert L. Crain of Teachers College, Columbia University, reports that among 32 states, the gap between black and white fourth-grade reading scores is narrowest in West Virginia and Iowa, where blacks are least isolated from whites, and largest in Michigan and New York, where blacks are the most racially isolated...
Even worse, I had to throw my hands in the air trying to follow Michigan basketball. As I graduated high school, I watched fellow Detroit Country Day alum Chris Webber and the rest of the Fab Five blow it in the NCAA finals again. Last spring, I suffered through watching a bunch of new hot shots stink up Dayton Arena in a firstround loss to the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers...
...remember taking calculated study breaks every 15 minutes or so last spring to get the latest Tigers' score, get the 5-0 on the latest Toledo Mud Hen to be called up to the major league club and read about Michigan's new-and-improved more-fabulous freshman class...
...working here in Cambridge, I snuck away frequently to enter the world of ESPNet, following the Lions' training camp (and praying, secretly, for something to happen to Wayne Fontes), the Pistons' firing of Don Chaney and hiring of Doug Collins and the sad tale of Gary Moeller, the former Michigan football coach who had one bad night...