Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...voters think it is, then Congress will pay attention. Says Michigan Congressman John Dingell, chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce: "Small investors have been unimpressed by the incremental steps ((toward reform)) taken thus far." Wisconsin's William Proxmire, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, has introduced legislation that would impose ^ many of the Brady group's recommendations, including tighter margins and joint supervision of futures markets by the Fed, CFTC...
...other influential Republicans are afraid to stand up for civil rights. Republican Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole has a civil rights record so solid that it won praise from Coretta Scott King. But when Reagan and the Moral Majority lobbied against the Civil Rights Restoration Act, Dole fled to Wisconsin in a futile attempt to attract voters and dodge the issue...
...little national exposure Harvard received came because of its performance in the National Indoor tournament. In the tournament, the squad knocked off Wisconsin, 5-4, but dropped its next match to Georgia, the tournament's seventh seed...
...Black and White then moved quickly, shaking off Princeton, Cornell and Wisconsin in the first 500 meters to make the race a three-boat contest between Radcliffe, Brown, and Yale...
...kept everyone, indoors and out, light on their feet. It was a good crowd of about 100 people, and also a very mixed one. Ranch hands wearing jeans and checked shirts kicked up their heels with schoolteachers dressed in white blouses. A few middle-class retiree couples from Wisconsin and Iowa staying at a nearby recreational-vehicle park danced cheek to cheek when there was a slow number. Then there were Mexicans in wide- brim hats and shy girls with dark eyes and red lipstick. John Klingemann, the Brewster County deputy sheriff, leaned quietly, arms folded, against a parked pickup...