Word: wisconsin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...WISCONSIN. Fifteen months ago, when Governor Patrick Lucey was named Ambassador to Mexico, he bequeathed to his successor, Democrat Martin Schreiber, a healthy state economy and a budget surplus projected to total $500 million by next June. To soak up the spare cash, Schreiber, a colorless career politician, proposed cutting property taxes by a modest $110 million and increasing state spending on water purification, schools and debt reduction. But Schreiber, 39, has run afoul of Proposition 13 fever, which has been skillfully exploited by his Republican opponent, Lee Sherman Dreyfus...
...political novice who is on leave from his job as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, Dreyfus, 52, unexpectedly won his party's gubernatorial nomination after a witty and eloquent campaign. His trademark is a bright red vest, and he speaks out at every opportunity against hack politicians and their moneyed backers. "Who's going to run the show," he asks, "people or money...
...know, if the Rose Bowlwere played next week, Washington State would square-off against the University of Wisconsin. Now, I hope everyone will remember my prediction the first week of the year when I declared that the Badgers would eventually win the Big Ten crown...
...course, I will not allow readers to wallow in provincial ignorance by failing to disseminate relevant information relating to the fortunes of great academic institutions such as the University of Wisconsin or Duke...
...forget, the University of Wisconsin, this year's Big-Ten champions-to-be, will be hosting the University of Oregon Ducks. Which reminds me, this year's duck and goose hunting season opens half an hour before sunrise October 11. I'm usually awake by then and I plan to capture any ducks that are still sleeping in Quincy House at sunrise. As a punishment, I will then force them to go to my lectures and to take notes while I go to Yom Kippur services...