Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these reasons, the Wisconsin Council on Criminal Justice recommended to the governor in 1972 that Wisconsin's prisons be abolished and that money be allocated instead to minimum security community and vocational rehabilitation programs. Wicker feels that America's prisons should be abolished: "Hate and fear have been made institutions, tax supported, government-operated, sealed with the approval of society...
There was evidence last week that Congress also will compromise if it has to, or even retreat. Wisconsin Democrat Henry Reuss, chairman of the House Banking Committee and a zealous critic of the policies of the Federal Reserve Board, introduced a pair of bills to make the Fed more of a "creature of Congress." One was a reaction to Chairman Arthur Burns' tight-money policy in 1974; Reuss called for increasing the money supply at an annual rate of 6% with the aim of bringing down interest rates. His second bill would establish a mandatory credit allocation program...
...Minnesota(27-7) 2. Harvard (19-3) 3. Michigan Tech (24-10) 4. Boston University (20-4-1) 5. Colorado College (23-11) 6. Michigan State (23-10-1) 7. Wisconsin (22-11) 8. New Hampshire (20-6-1) 9. Vermont (20-10) 10. Bowling Green...
Weed Killers. Several chemical firms have given cash and gifts to Illinois and Wisconsin state officials who bought the firms' weed killers and deicers. So far, 70 highway superintendents, sheriffs, sewer-plant supervisors -and even the mayors of the towns of Piper City and Rankin, Ill.-have admitted collecting bribes in return for approving official purchases at prices from two to five times competitive levels...
...writer, one of the leading exponents of American realist painting, succeeded John Steuart Curry as Artist-in-Residence at the University of Wisconsin...