Word: michigans
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Like the Shah of Iran in his final days, Bob Dole's campaign doesn't have many places to set down. In almost every big state but Texas, there's an unwelcoming crowd on the ground. Michigan and Illinois? Not good. Likewise Ohio. Forget New York. Even Florida is tilting the wrong way. That suggests an explanation for the official version of the Republican endgame, the one Dole's campaign embarked on last week. It calls for a last-ditch effort to win California and its 54 electoral votes, even if that means neglecting smaller but more promising potential swing...
...there's more. Powerful constituents can also exceed the per-candidate spending limits through a type of earmarking called "tallying," which routes their big checks to the party and then back to their candidate of choice. The Washington Post found memos from the campaign of Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, that openly asked donors to tally their extra contributions to benefit his campaign. One letter from Levin soliciting a tallied contribution from the Chrysler Corp.'s PAC in 1995 called it "crucial to my re-election effort next year...
...Byers to admit that is somewhat akin to Pope John Paul II recanting his stance on women in the priesthood. Byers' recent change of heart, set forth in his book, Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Exploiting College Athletes (University of Michigan Press), came with his realization that "the wheel of fortune is badly unbalanced in favor of the overseers and against the players." His call has been taken up by coaches, administrators, journalists and the athletes themselves. Some of the more radical proponents of change wonder openly about the possibility of a strike on, say, the eve of the championship game in basketball...
...Connecticut, shows a commitment to help out the party in a state that has a number of hotly contested seats. Monday, Dole eschewed attacks on Clinton in order to concentrate on his economic plan. Unfortunately, he is finding an increasingly chilly reception even from his own party. In Michigan, Dole tried to score points by touting a tax plan he says will jump start a stalled economy only to be rebutted by the state's Republican governor, George Voinovich. "It's about growth, it's about opportunity, it's about jobs, it's about the private sector," Dole said...
...survey ranked Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania first, the University of Michigan secon. The Kellogg School at Northwestern was ranked third. The Darden School at the University of Virginia rounded out the top five...