Blue state.Michigan Michigan (mĭsh`ĭgən), upper midwestern state of the United States. It consists of two peninsulas thrusting into the Great Lakes and has borders with Ohio and Indiana (S), Wisconsin (W), and the Canadian province of Ontario (N,E). did not erase DP benefits for state employees [Letter From the Editor in Chief, January 18]. To be accurate, Michigan has never offered these to state employees. What was erased e·rase tr.v. e·rased, e·ras·ing, e·ras·es 1. a. To remove (something written, for example) by rubbing, wiping, or scraping. b. were benefits that, if passed, would not have gone into effect until October of 2005. Michigan may have had a setback setback In architecture, a steplike recession in the profile of a high-rise building. Usually dictated by building codes to allow sunlight to reach streets and lower floors, the building must take another step back from the street for every specified added height interval. with our anti-gay marriage amendment, but we were a blue state, Democrats picked up five seats in our legislature, and most state offices went Democratic. Although we are disappointed that the benefits were removed from the bargaining table, we are proud to have never had a formal rollback A DBMS feature that reverses the current transaction out of the database, returning the data to its former state. A rollback is performed when processing a transaction fails at some point, and it is necessary to start over. See two-phase commit. of benefits anywhere in Michigan. Sean Kosofsky, via the Internet |
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