Word: madison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Waclaw Szybalski, Professor of Oncology University of Wisconsin Medical School Madison...
Later in the week, using leads turned up in the arrests, police and FBI agents raided two F.A.L.N. hideouts, in Jersey City, N.J., and Milwaukee. They seized guns and bombmaking equipment. Police also found a diagram of New York's Madison Square Garden, the site of this summer's Democratic National Convention...
...THAT it hasn't been tried. In 1787 James Madison fought--unsuccessfully--to empower Congress to supplant state charters of corporations with federal charters when the public good required them. In 1901 President Theodore Roosevelt suggested--to no avail--that "the Government should have the right to inspect and examine the workings of the great corporations engaged in interstate commerce." Thirty-seven years later, populist Sen. Joseph O'Mahoney proposed a more far-reaching program called the "National Charters for National Business." It bombed...
...call attention to the proposed "Corporate Democracy Act of 1980." Nader advocates federal chartering of corporations because state chartering encourages attempts to woo business by relaxing corporate regulations. Deleware, for example, boasts the nation's most lenient business codes and incorporates about half of the Fortune 500 businesses. Madison's reservations about state regulation were probably well-founded in an age of small-scale agrarian enterprises; the need for standardized, federal guidelines for today's ubiquitous business world seems almost axiomatic...
...nearly three weeks, the slight, intense figure in the rumpled trench coat campaigned across Wisconsin at dairy farms and bowling alleys, in workingmen's bars and suburban living rooms. "My campaign," Jerry Brown expounded to a throng of supporters in Madison's Cardinal Bar, "is on the edge, the existential edge...