Word: wisconsin
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Last Resort. In search of a permanent solution, Carey and Rohatyn journeyed to Washington again to lobby for help from Congress. At their request. Democratic Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin scheduled hearings before his Senate banking committee this week on an array of bills to aid the city. Because of overwhelming congressional opposition to a direct subsidy, most attention has focused on one proposal that would authorize federal guarantees of state securities designed to help finance local governments. The proposed legislation would make the guarantees available only as a last resort...
Give 'Em Hell, Harry! Ten days ago, after driving all day through dairy lands, north into lakes and woods, we pulled into a little campground (which doubled as a chain saw outlet and vendor of used snowmobiles) a mile or so outside the proud community of Rhinelander, Wisconsin. Three dollars for a little plot for the tent, a picnic table, and a bunch of rocks in a circle to start a fire in, a fire which I later couldn't get started because of wet wood, an episode ending in a most unwoodsman-like display of burned fingers, smoldering copies...
...crew's youngest member is Lynn Silliman, 16, a 98-lb. coxswain from San Diego, who directs the boat with the aplomb of an old pro. The remainder of the crew comes from such schools as Radcliffe, Yale and Wisconsin. Excluding Silliman, they average an imposing...
...armed forces under control of the ruling Awami League party. They were also displeased by Mujib's increasingly authoritarian tactics, the rising corruption within his government and his inability to cope with the crushing problems of Bangladesh, a destitute and overcrowded country the size of Wisconsin that has a population of 75 million...
...More than one-third of the students who want to become journalism majors in their junior year at the University of Wisconsin did not meet minimum admissions standards in grammar, spelling, punctuation and word usage. At the University of North Carolina's journalism school, 39% of the students flunked the basic spelling test...