Word: milliken
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...hypnotized by the pretty jump shots St. Michael's Bob Milliken and George Daway were sinking from all around the key, the Cantabs Isaw their lead cut to only 35-24 with just five minutes gone in the half...
...income tax increases. It would also have required voter approval for all new levies. Opposing the proposition was an unusual coalition of critics, including Democratic Governor James Blanchard, the state's leading corporations (General Motors, Ford Motor and Chrysler), the AFL-CIO, educators and former G.O.P. Governors Wilham Milliken and George Romney. They helped persuade voters that the measure would have drastically shrunk state services, especially education...
...Renaissance Center stands as a symbol of what is possible when people who live and work in a city combine their efforts toward a common goal." So said Michigan Governor William Milliken five years ago of Detroit's new $357 million cluster of five glass towers, a 32-acre complex aimed at reviving the city's decaying downtown area. Now Ren Cen stands as a symbol of hard times. The center defaulted last week on its mortgage debt of more than $200 million by failing to make a scheduled payment of $10 million...
...Republicans, Bush and Baker are still available, for 1988 if not 1984, and perhaps Senator Robert Dole, steadily positioning himself toward the center, and Congressman Jack Kemp, steadily holding to the right. Also: Richard Thornburgh, Governor of Pennsylvania; Robert Ray and William Milliken, retiring Governors of Iowa and Michigan; and two attractive political alumni now hi industry, former Congressman and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, chief executive officer of Searle, and William Ruckelshaus, former Deputy Attorney General, now senior vice president of Weyerhaeuser...
Headlee, who gained his fame primarily in the private sector and as the author of a Prop 2 1/2-type tax amendment, came fron nowhere to snatch the Republican nomination from Milliken's hand-picked successor. And so, in the wake of his self-destruction, it is hardly with absolute confidence that Michigan's pundits have tapped Democratic candidate James Blanchard as the hands-down winner in today's election...