Word: michigans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...practical category, bicycles are as hot as it gets. In Harbor Springs, Michigan, bike-shop owner Bill Prall boasts that "we just shipped almost our entire inventory to customers around the country, while everybody else is marking down gloves and sweaters. Every shop should be lucky enough to sell bikes this year." And in the luxury category, gourmet dog biscuits top the list of petty indulgences. In Kansas City, Missouri, Dan Dye, co-owner of Three Dog Bakery, says boxes of carob-coated reindeer and other savories baked by trained pastry chefs sell briskly for $12 a dozen...
...lower real wages. The only way to reverse this trend is to create more jobs by reducing the standard work week. Shrinking the work week from 40 hours or more to 30 hours would help solve the employment problem caused by the information revolution. JAMES W. RENDER Pontiac, Michigan...
...what he says. That alone puts him head and shoulders above most of the candidates for President. If Buchanan is able to make other Republican candidates for President dance to his tune, it's only because he's the one humming America's hit parade. RICHARD HOWTING Bloomfield, Michigan...
...unofficial designation, recognized only by the real estate elite, but RALPH ROBERTS is the best-selling Realtor in America this year. By the end of October, the almost pathologically can-do salesman from Warren, Michigan, had sold more than 500 homes, priced on average at $115,000. He did it with the help of two car phones, a swarm of assistants to do the paperwork, and countless fridge magnets, flyers and referrals. Other techniques are less orthodox--and, alas, less tasteful. He sends out letters to people who are in foreclosure or going through a divorce. He lends buyers money...
...officials have released the names of the five Americans killed in the bombing. James Allen, 55, of Atlanta, Michigan; Alaric Brozovsky, 31, of Spokane, Wash; retired U.S. Army major Wayne Wiley, 55; and William Combs, 54; were civilian employees of the U.S. Army. David K. Warrell, 34, of Hasty, N.C., was Army Sgt. 1st Class...