Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proof he offers some 96 varied testimonies dealing with postponed or fulfilled aspirations. A Minnesota beef farmer decides that America's problems are created by "Zionists . . . I believe they want to set up a messianic kingdom, with them as masters and the rest of us as slaves." Jean Gump, a quiet Roman Catholic grandmother, protests the presence of an Army missile site in Missouri and pays for her convictions by becoming No. 03789-045 in a West Virginia prison...
...Department of Agriculture executive in Minnesota offers a chilling report of two small farm children who eventually refused to board their school bus: "One afternoon, they came home on the bus and they saw the machinery being hauled away. On another afternoon, they saw the livestock hauled away. The kids said, if they rode that bus again, they'd be hauling mom and dad away...
...greatest lure is the little shops' reputation for creativity. In last June's annual Clio Awards ceremony, the industry's equivalent of Oscar night, Fallon McElligott of Minneapolis ($142 million) won twelve prizes. The most honored Madison Avenue contender, BBDO Worldwide ($3.7 billion), won seven. Among the Minnesota firm's winners was an ad for a pregnancy-prevention campaign that portrays an expectant teenager under the line, "If you're embarrassed by a pimple, try explaining this." A reason for the agency's success, says its chairman, Patrick Fallon, is that only one creative director reviews all text and designs...
First, the hockey player. Dino Ciccarelli, an especially unruly forward with the Minnesota North Stars, was jailed for a day in Toronto for clubbing the Maple Leafs' Luke Richardson twice before punching him in the mouth. Known for stark behavior (already on probation for indecent exposure), Ciccarelli was judged to have exceeded the National Hockey League's acceptable level of savagery, not an easy thing to do. Though hockey players have come before judges before, Dino is thought to be the first one directed to a real penalty box after an on-ice assault...
...unmarried individuals, whether dating, engaged or living together, have been involved in physical aggression with the opposite sex. "Courtship violence is a more serious problem than spouse abuse in our society," says James Makepeace, a professor of sociology at the College of St. Benedict in Minnesota. "Young people don't have the economic resources or power to get the help they need...