Word: branstad
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...hope is that education policy makers can come to a consensus over the next several months on what their precise goals should be, so that they can be discussed at the next national Governors Association meeting in the spring said Governor Terry E. Branstad...
...Terry Branstad visited Haynes' bedside and said at a news conference, "He was quite emotional about the situation, and tears came to his eyes when he talked about the number of people who lost their lives....I told him he did a valiant...
Republican incumbent Senator Charles Grassley won in an easy race. In a much tighter contest for governor, incumbent Terry Branstad edged Democrat Lovell Junkins...
What to do? Iowa has written off Ronald Reagan, turned away from almost everybody else in Washington. "We're doing it ourselves," insists Governor Terry Branstad. "We've gone beyond grieving," says Richard Krumme, editor of Des Moines's Successful Farming magazine. "There's not one solution, there are 100,000 solutions." Iowa farmers are thinking about raising flowers, birdseed, llamas, snails and a few other items they never saw or tasted before. They pledge to work in factories, should anybody send one their way, better than the people in New Jersey and California. Adversity has fired them up again...
...Iowa, militant moralism is making its way into the mainstream after a group of evangelical and Fundamentalist Christians seized control of the Polk County Republican convention. Iowa Governor Terry Branstad penciled in child- porn laws as one of his top legislative priorities for 1986. The legislature responded by passing a bill that makes it a crime to purchase child porn. The trickle-down theory of antiporn was in evidence when a planned fund-raising softball game south of Des Moines, featuring a group of Playboy Bunnies and Rabbits, was canceled after phone calls to the local athletic booster club protested...