Word: milliken
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...Michigan to stop relying on local property taxes as the primary source of school funds. Courts in six states have already ordered such action to equalize statewide school spending, and the Supreme Court agreed last week to review the question in its next term. Michigan Governor William Milliken agrees with that approach, and he has filed suit in the state supreme court challenging Michigan's dependence on property taxes for its schools. The court probably will not decide the case until this summer, however, and even if it rules in Milliken's favor, it may be too late...
...football game reminds Mutual-Fund Manager Denver Milliken of the stock market: anyone who hopes to succeed must have a plan. The lines that stock prices trace on a chart suggest to Milliken the curves of a woman's body -and, the reader suspects, vice versa. For Milliken, a 29-year-old fictional prototype of the "gunslingers" who rode high on Wall Street in the late '60s, the market is everything: father, mother, wife and mistress; food, drink and recreation...
...collection of anecdotes about bulls and bears of the past, which his characters recount with the fervor of Hot Stove League fanatics swapping memories about Willie Mays' catches or Curt Flood's legal problems. Vartan has also unwisely included some love affairs and a subplot about Milliken's revenge on the ex-basketball player who stole his first girl. Alas, it is all too obvious that to Milliken and colleagues, such matters are distractions; the excitement of sex can never equal the blood-pounding tension of making a killing on a big short sale...
...stock ticker. It is a man's world. It is a world of immense wealth, of private airplanes equipped with tiled showers and Roman baths in inner offices, all described with goggle-eyed wonder. The book's main plot is a conflict in investment strategy between Milliken, who thinks that prices can go only up, and his boss, Choate Cavendish, who lives for the day when such whippersnappers find out what happens in a crash. In the end, though, neither man is the protagonist. Vartan's real hero is the market itself -a kind of mercurial...
DiSesa starred for Harvard, collecting four goals from his first midfield position. Hagerty and Steve Leahy each scored twice, while Steve Milliken and Rick Carey notched one spiece. Hagerty now leads the team with 31 points...