Word: wisconsin
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Fire is an ever present danger. Lightning in the eastern Sierra Nevada has sparked more than 80 fires. In Wisconsin, where 87 fires charred 250 acres last week, the state has ordered a ban on all types of outdoor fires, including barbecues and cigarette smoking, in rural areas...
...Capitol Hill, a chorus of voices warns that the Pentagon will be lucky to get even that much. Many members of Congress, searching for ways to cut the overall budget deficit, are in no mood to give the military any increase. According to Les Aspin, the Wisconsin Democrat who heads the House Armed Services Committee, the slash in Pentagon budget authority over the next five years is likely to be "closer to $422 billion" than to Carlucci's figures...
...duty at the nearby International Paper mill; others, despite the weather, will report for the afternoon. The union was locked out of one IP plant in Alabama 15 months ago and went on strike last June at three mills -- the one in Jay and two others in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin -- because of contract disputes. Despite the length of the strike, the members are hanging tough: only 5% of the 3,500 affected employees have returned to their jobs, even though the company has hired replacement workers. The strikers' hopes in a seemingly hopeless cause focus on one man: Ray Rogers...
...addition, about 28 other states, including Maine and Wisconsin, have laws regulating the vehicles. Several bills now pending in Congress would restrict the sale of ATVs or provide refunds to customers who have purchased the three- wheel versions. Hundreds of product-liability cases and class actions have been brought against manufacturers. James Lacy, general counsel of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, says there have been 998 ATV-related deaths since the beginning...
Jesse Jackson won in Michigan, where he drew widespread white support and beat the establishment candidate. Then came Wisconsin--more excitement, huge crowds, and whites saying that a candidate's color did not matter as long as he had something to say. But then Dukakis won, and kept on winning. The two who had the most money, the best organizations, and the least to say, found themselves on their way to the nomination...