Word: southfields
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...Given that choice, Michigan primary voters, who picked McCain over Bush in 2000, abandoned their hero in droves. The result was a decisive victory for Romney, who took 39% of the vote to McCain's 30%. (Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee won 16%.) "Tonight," Romney declared in Southfield on election night, "marks a victory of optimism over Washington-style pessimism...
...Mitt Romney who gave his acceptance speech at the Embassy Suites in Southfield, Mich. - an upscale Detroit suburb - had a hair out of place. Maybe more than one. He was in his shirtsleeves. He was, as a spokesman said, "the stripped-down, acoustic Romney - Romney unplugged." The clunky chimera candidate who tried so hard to prove his conservative credentials had become a model of simplicity with one major theme: He was a successful "can-do CEO," in the words of state G.O.P. chairman Saul Anuzis, "who knows how to get jobs back...
DIED. Bo Schembechler, 77, gruff, opinionated ex--University of Michigan football coach who won 13 Big Ten championships and over 21 seasons became the winningest coach in Michigan history; in Southfield, Mich. His death darkened the mood of the most important college football game of the year, No. 1 Ohio State vs. No. 2 Michigan, which Ohio State won, 42-39. In 1969, his first year at Michigan, Schembechler sent ripples through the college-football world by leading the struggling Wolverines to a 24-12 upset over Ohio State, coached by his friend and mentor, the irascible Woody Hayes. That...
Divorce planning is one of the fastest-growing specialties. The Institute for Divorce Financial Analysts in Southfield, Mich., certifies specialists, who have to pass exams on how to handle monetary issues related to divorce, according to its president, Fadi Baradihi. The institute's membership of 1,500 is growing about 20% annually. "In divorce, one party may try to hide income from a spouse," says divorce expert Edward DeGennaro, based in Greenvale, N.Y. "We are trained to look out for this and help our client get his or her fair share of assets...
Marcia Avis transformed her late father's Southfield, Mich., plastic-surgery practice into a medi-spa and increased revenues 40%, to $450,000, in 2003. She positioned her medi-spa as an affordable alternative to plastic surgery. "If a client can't afford a $9,000 face-lift, he or she is more likely to spend $3,000 on a rejuvenation package of collagen and Botox injections, microdermabrasion facials and chemical peels," Avis says...