Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, one of the biggest generating companies in the Midwest, Wisconsin Electric Power, plans to experiment with other measures to discourage consumption. It wants higher rates but intends to increase them much faster for corporate customers than for residential users. Wisconsin Electric managers also polled residential customers to see how many would approve of having their water heaters turned off automatically during peak consumption periods. Fully half of the customers said that they would not mind...
...varsity and junior varsity boats were undisputed national champions last season, winning the Eastern Sprints and dual regattas against Wisconsin and Washington...
...Congress he established himself as a New Deal Democrat. In 1952 he moved up, bucking the Eisenhower landslide to win election to the Senate over conservative Republican Incumbent Harry Cam. In the Senate, Jackson was soon enlisted in the Democratic campaign to bring down Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin and end his witchhunt for subversives in Government. Among other things, Jackson asked a series of ironic questions during the Army-McCarthy hearings that helped reduce the Wisconsin Senator to an object of ridicule. The strain of those hearings led to an attack of fibromyositis, an extremely painful, body-wide...
...Crimson was the lone ECAC squad to be ranked among the top five. Following Harvard, Michigan State was third, followed by Wisconsin and Michigan Tech in fourth and-fifth positions, respectively. The other western teams to be ranked were Colorado College in seventh place and St. Louis University in ninth...
...million revolving credit with a consortium of 36 U.S. banks. The credit expires this autumn, and it was widely expected that Pan Am would have trouble renewing it without some form of government guarantee or operating subsidy. But such federal underwriting would surely run into considerable resistance in Congress; Wisconsin's Democratic Senator William Proxmire has already voiced opposition to making Pan Am "the nation's largest welfare recipient." Pan Am's financial troubles have also impeded its search for a merger partner...