Word: wausau
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, WAUSAU, WISCONSIN, WAS HOMOGENEOUS AND COMPLACENT, among the whitest of cities in the country. No longer: beginning in the late 1970s, local churches began sponsoring displaced refugees from the wars in Southeast Asia, allowing them to settle in Wausau. As a result, the town (pop. 38,000) is now 15% Hmong, a people native to the mountains of Indochina who speak a language that until the 1950s had no written form...
...makes close relationships impossible and cuts us off from the source of emotional nurturing we need, further intensifying insecurity, increasing withdrawal and so on in a spiraling cycle of despair. There are many more things than technology in our society that make us feel anxious and insecure. MARILYN KRAMER Wausau, Wisconsin...
...First Lady draws her own share of fire. About 500 men, women and children braved a wet, bitter wind to protest her visit last month to Wausau, Wisconsin. BILL AND HILLARY, PREZ AND CO-PREZ OF SLEAZE, read many of the placards. In the middle of the crowd Constance Brockman, an apple-cheeked mother of two, talked about why she came out in such foul weather. Brockman, a 38-year-old homemaker, said she was worried about social ills -- crime and the lack of sexual abstinence among teenagers -- which she blames the Clinton Administration for exacerbating. "The country...
...wheel. Truckers are particularly vulnerable. A long-haul driver covering up to 4,000 miles in seven to 10 days often averages only two to four hours of sleep a night. "I've followed trucks that were weaving all over the road," says Corky Woodward, a driver out of Wausau, Wis. "You yell, blow your air horn and try to raise them on the CB radio. But sometimes they go in the ditch. You ask what happened, and they can't remember because they're so tired...