Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition, 45% of the 1 million federal pensioners are "double-dippers" who also collect Social Security checks, for which they qualified by retiring from Government service and taking jobs in private industry. Declared Wisconsin Re publican William Steiger: "This is an appalling use of public funds." The double-dipping would gradually end if the two retirement programs were merged. Nonetheless, the House bowed to intense pressure from lobbyists for the Government workers and shelved the merger for at least two years. That will give the Executive Branch time to search for a way to combine the programs in a manner...
...House bill now goes to the Senate, where Russell Long's Finance Committee is bogged down with the energy program and may not take up Social Security until next year. When it does, the committee will tack on an amendment by Wisconsin Democrat Gaylord Nelson that would ease the tax burden on workers by making their employers pay a bigger share of Social Security cost. Under Nelson's proposal, 1978 would be the last year in which both paid the same tax: 6.05% of the first $17,700 earned by the worker. The next year, employers would pay taxes...
...campus, and when troopers surrounded his Pennsylvania farmhouse, gunfire erupted, leading to the death of one of the youths, as well as an FBI agent. That scenario seems possible--especially because such a bombing did actually occur on a Midwest campus, in 1970. An explosion at the University of Wisconsin that year destroyed part of a building and killed one person...
...begins to unfold, Carrie Graves is the newest face along the Charles, and she faces a big test as the rookie coach of the Radcliffe heavies. But Graves's background in rowing gives her a stable foundation from which to work. She spent three years at the University of Wisconsin as the stroke and captain of the women's team, a team that has kept Radcliffe company in the national top five rankings for the past few years...
...There's more money here, more equipment and more time for the coach to spend with the team," she said. "The women are also different from those I knew at Wisconsin--they have a higher quality of competitiveness here...