Word: michigans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...capital of the world," says David G. Ewing '98, who is from Michigan. "We really are the heartbeat of America...
Like their American counterparts, Japanese executives cheerfully overpaid for their late-'80s acquisitions. But the Japanese made another fundamental miscalculation, says Gary Saxonhouse, an economics professor at the University of Michigan: "They had a faith in American landmarks, a faith in American blue-chip names...
...Republicans have cast themselves again as enemies of Big Government, and thus as friends of the people. Tim Matuszewski, a machinist in Bay City, Michigan, believes it. "I'm sliding to the Republican side because they are more for the little guy." But the new G.O.P. majority on Capitol Hill is no less beholden to the special interests for campaign funds than are the Democrats. It has been no more willing to unravel the elaborate system of entitlements like farm subsidies and Social Security and a variety of tax preferences that favor the rich and the established and make real...
...Murphy] comes in and changes things up a little, and you realize that everything we do is what Ohio State, Michigan and Florida State would do," Anderson says. "There's an excitement because you're a big-time college football player...
...Michigan, Spencer Abraham, an side to former Vice President Dan Quayle, defeated U.S. Rep. Bob Carr (D-Mich.) in a U.S. Senate race marked not only by negative advertising but also by repelled visits from Clinton...