Word: wisconsin
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...Maine 13-3-0 7. Boston 10-3-0 8. Lake Superior State 10-5-3 9. Univ. of Ill-Chicago 11-6-2 10. Denver 11-8-1 11. Cornell 6-2-0 12. Michigan Teach 10-9-0 13. RPI 7-3-2 14. Wisconsin 8-7-4 15. Michigan...
...Hispanic vote in the candidate's electorally rich adopted home state. Last week, when President-elect Bush announced that he would retain Cavazos as head of the department, some educators made similar remarks. "It was an easy decision for Bush," says Donna Shalala, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. "He had a qualified person in place who was a minority...
...nation's biggest brewer, is so enthusiastic about its version of the product -- Michelob Dry -- that it is launching it with the industry's biggest introductory ad campaign since Bud Light. Two other firms have joined in the dry stakes. In early November, G. Heileman Brewing Co. of Wisconsin, which also distributes Old Style Dry in the Midwest, began selling Rainier Dry to its customers in the rainy Northwest, using the contrary slogan: THE DRY SEASON IS COMING. Meanwhile, Milwaukee's Pabst Brewing Co. started selling Olympia Dry, after first testing its potential in Japan...
Koepp has applied his inquisitive mind to the news since he graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and took a job as a reporter at the Waukesha (Wis.) Freeman (circ. 23,000). In 1980 he wrote an award-winning series that revealed how a small-town mayor was determined to spend $6 million of taxpayers' money to dredge a local lake, in part so his friends could use it for water-skiing. Koepp moved to TIME in 1981, and in five years as a writer he probed such topics as the declining quality of American service, national gridlock...
David Zucker and his brother Jerry met Abrahams in the early 1970s in Madison, Wisconsin, where they all were students. Together they worked up a show comprised of some video and live skits they called Kentucky Fried Theater. Weiss hooked up with the "ZAZ" (Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker) team when he went to see the show and loved it, returning again and again. That production went on to be the basis for their low-budget cult classic, Kentucky Fried Movie...