Word: elroy
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Even staunch defenders of free speech admit that cyberspace has red-light districts unsuitable for young Elroy Jetson. And there's no bouncer to keep out minors. Sexual content is scattered throughout Usenet, the collection of more than 5,000 special-interest public forums on the Internet, and accessible as well to users of large commercial providers such as America Online. One of the best-read sections of Usenet is alt.sex, a newsgroup so popular it has spawned more than 60 offshoots, from alt.sex.bestiality.barney to alt.sex.woody-allen. Half a dozen other Usenet groups also store free, X-rated images that...
McCaw is itself the product of a series of acquisitions. The company grew out of a string of cable-television businesses that was put together in the 1960s by J. Elroy McCaw. After their father's sudden death in 1969, Craig and his brothers built a cable empire that they finally sold in 1987 to Jack Kent Cooke for $755 million. The McCaws had switched their focus to cellular, becoming initial bidders for cellular-telephone licenses after the Federal Communications Commission opened up that business to competition in the early 1980s. McCaw's big break came in 1986, when...
Tommy Thompson learned the work ethic while polishing eggs and stacking groceries more than three decades ago at his dad's general store in the town of Elroy (pop. 1,596), 80 miles north of Madison, Wis. Farmers and railroaders would congregate there to talk about the weather, argue about politics, share their views on life. One bit of philosophy that young Tommy picked up from his father Allan was that "if you wanted anything, you worked...
That dictum inspired him to save up the money for his first bike at the age of six. Today it underpins the "toughlove" policies he is pursuing as Governor of Wisconsin. "We're glad to say he's a typical Wisconsinite," says Tilmar Roalkvam, 72, a retired Elroy postman who has known Thompson from childhood. "It's them work ethic. Being a good person...