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Michigan's counterpart to Proposition 36 is Proposal C. The measure would roll back state and local property taxes to 1981 levels and would require voter approval of any new tax increase. Moreover, an increase in license-plate fees and other state-agency charges would have to be approved by a four-fifths majority in the state legislature...
...Manners." (The name Miss Manners derives from a figure in Victorian English folklore who was originally called Lady Manners. She was conjured up so that when children tried to gobble all the food on the table, they could be ordered to leave a little bit on the plate "for Lady Manners...
...families needed was a parish hall. With a separate facility for bingo, dances, the women's club, the men's club and other functions, the church could get rid of its collapsible chairs and pray from the proper seat of religion, pews. Providentially, in the collection plate on Reynolds' second Christmas at St. Henry's was a check for $20,000. "I had never seen a check for $20,000," he recalls with wonder. He wrote its author, the president of a cement company, a note of gratitude. Four days later (the tax deduction-minded might...
With a name like Yugo 55, it sounds less like a car than a surrealistic foreign film. But Entrepreneur Malcolm Bricklin believes the tiny Yugoslavian vehicle, whose name plate reflects its nationality and horsepower, will appeal to frugal American car buyers. Next spring Bricklin will begin importing 35,000 Yugos into the U.S. The four-passenger, front-wheel-drive auto will carry a $3,990 sticker price that will make it the cheapest new car on the U.S. market. Says Bricklin, 45, a New York City businessman who introduced the first Japanese Subaru to the U.S. in 1968 but crashed...
...fans practically booed me out of town. It got so bad, I went to the plate thinking, 'I'll show these people,' hardly even noticing who was pitching. I was a disaster." Lacking Mantle's arm, he was obliged to learn how to release the ball more quickly. Kaline showed him how, and while he was at it, reintroduced him properly to Al's old friend, right field. "I'm never going to be Mickey Mantle," said Gibson. "But I'm learning." Crowding 30 homers and 100 RBIS, he batted over...