Word: wisconsin
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...about six lawsuits and threaten more. Among other causes, he has battled surrogate motherhood, animal patenting and agricultural experiments involving open-air use of genetically altered bacteria. He tried to delay the launch of the Galileo spacecraft by warning that a shuttle explosion could rain plutonium on Florida. In Wisconsin he has helped start a boycott of dairy products from cows that are being fed a genetically engineered growth hormone. Indeed, Rifkin's success at blocking research projects led one biotech newsletter to label him "the Abominable...
...instance, when Wisconsin activists had difficulty coordinating a rally, students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison decided to hold one on campus, Bowman says. In the end, their enthusiasm sparked a rally at the state capitol...
...Michael S. Dukakis, as he signed the Gay Civil Rights Bill into law Wednesday, making Massachusetts the second state in the nation--after Wisconsin--to enact such legislation...
Massachusetts joined ranks with Wisconsin as it became the second state in the nation to enact gay rights legislation. Ten other state legislatures are considering gay rights legislation, including Connecticut, Vermont, and New Jersey...
...case, the contras cannot count on a rebound of U.S. aid, even though some of the sharpest U.S. reaction to Ortega's move came from liberal legislators who have long opposed U.S. aid to the guerrillas. Said one of them, Wisconsin Congressman David Obey: "Daniel Ortega is a fool and always has been." Despite Bush's initial outburst, the Administration's response otherwise remained low-key. That was due in part to a realization, as a senior Administration official put it, that "there's not the remotest chance Congress will okay the restoration of lethal aid." Congress abolished such assistance...