Word: martinisms
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...battle with the union. The teachers' salaries will be frozen for a year and a half, and they will get only 5% raises in each of the following two years. The teachers did win guaranteed teacher-pupil ratios for special programs, but at a terrible price. Union President Martin Cullinan is serving 20 days in jail for disregarding a court order to go back to work. The union must pay $170,000 in fines, which will eventually go to the school district, and each teacher has been fined two days' pay for every day on strike. The average...
...elected to the House were Democrats Les Aspin of Wisconsin, Ronald Dellums of California, Elizabeth Holtzman and Charles Rangel of New York and Patricia Schroeder of Colorado, along with Republicans Jack Kemp of New York, Tom Railsback of Illinois and William Steiger of Wisconsin. Minnesota Democrat Martin Sabo was elected to the House...
...Carlin, 38, speaker of the state's house of representatives. Wisconsin's image as one of the more liberal states was transformed by Republican Lee Sherman Dreyfus, 52, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, who was seeking office for the first time. He unseated Acting Governor Martin Schreiber, 39, a career politician. Yet Dreyfus, who describes himself as a maverick in a populist mold, saw no ideological portent in his victory. He was elected, he said, "not because of what I was, but because of what I was not. I was beholden to no one, backed...
...Bravo, Martin Feldstein! It's about time Government left some of the banking to the bankers. Government is there to help the country, not to administer personal financing...
WATERSHIP DOWN Directed and Written by Martin Rosen...