Word: wisconsin
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...wake of the Lockheed and Gulf Oil scandals, there has been a growing outcry in Washington for a new law that would prohibit U.S. corporations from engaging in bribery and political payoffs abroad. In the Senate, Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire has introduced a bill that would make it a crime, under U.S. law, for American companies to engage in such activities in foreign countries whose own laws forbid political payoff and bribery. Last week the Ford Administration presented the outlines of the antibribery bill that it intends to present to Congress soon...
Fourth, black audiences in particular responded to this Georgian. More than most whites, they were moved by his appeals for "love" and "decency." Almost everywhere, blacks voted for Carter by overwhelming margins. Without them, he would not have turned back Wallace in Florida, or Udall in Wisconsin and Michigan...
...presidency, which the current polls show him winning. Looking to November, his aides figure that he can already reasonably count on 199 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win. They calculate this by figuring that he will carry all the Southern and Border states, plus Massachusetts, Minnesota, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia, which they consider to be reliably Democratic. But to meet this optimistic projection and go beyond it, he still has to persuade millions of Democrats and independents who have yet to be sold on Jimmy Carter...
...April; the wholesale price index rose at a moderate annual rate of 3.7%, v. 10% the month before. President Ford hailed the news as "extremely significant" and predicted that it would help him best Ronald Reagan in this week's primaries. Even Democratic Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin greeted the figures as "unadulterated good news...
Based on the Wisconsin studies, the CIA report concludes that a return to the conditions that prevailed during the Little Ice Age would reduce the frequency of India's monsoons and cause droughts on the subcontinent as often as every four years. This climatic change would also cause major crop failures and famine every five years in China and loss of the Soviet Union's wheat fields in Kazakhstan. Cooler temperatures could also cut crop production in Canada, as well as Northern Europe...