Word: milliken
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beleagured three-term Gov. William Milliken announced more than a year ago that he would step down from the office occupied by a Republican for 20 years. Milliken is leaving his state in ruins, and an intense governor's race confronting the state's epidemic economic problems seemed like a potential bright spot in a social and political panorama of utter bleakness...
Thus it is hardly surprising that this liquid treasure is being eyed covetously by those less richly endowed, who live in what Michigan Governor William Milliken scornfully dubs the "parch-belt": the water-poor states of the West and the Sunbelt. Milliken and other Great Lakes Governors fear that as the need for water grows in these areas during the coming decade, there will develop a prodigious national thirst for Great Lakes water. Wisconsin Governor Lee Dreyfus goes so far as to predict that Great Lakes states, along with Ontario, could become "the OPEC of water...
MICHIGAN. Friends said that he was simply exhausted after nearly 14 years of trying to arrest the disintegration of his state's automobile-oriented economy. William Milliken, 60, admitted that Michigan's dismal fiscal condition influenced his decision to "run for cover" instead of for office this year, despite pleas from G.O.P. leaders to stay on. Said he: "Michigan's economic problems in these extraordinary times are too serious to have a Governor preoccupied with months of campaigning." Perhaps the worst of those problems is the state's unemployment rate, at 15% the nation...
Governor William Milliken is seeking to restrain social programs, public sector salaries and the cost to business of unemployment and workers' compensation. For the longer run, Michigan Director of Commerce Norton Berman is pursuing longstanding efforts to diversify the state's economy. Some of his aims involve futuristic technology industries, such as the construction of industrial robots, computer-aided manufacturing and genetic engineering. Berman also hopes to exploit the state's natural resources of wood and water. He claims enthusiastically that Michigan's borders embrace or touch on 20% of the nation's fresh water...
...find some intrinsic value" and is whisked away by a deux ex machina, lacks the delicacy of the play's best moments. But at least it points to a kind of theatre beyond the blank, muddy "reality" that the rest of these plays have a foot in. Mark Milliken has staged Fits and Starts with merry rambunctiousness, and the piece is fetchingly danced by Julia Newton, an utterly charming waif. Annette Miller and John Adair, though, as mother and dog respectively, again display little variety or subtlety in their delivery...