Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first thing that Lee Sherman Dreyfus did after taking office last January as Wisconsin's 41st Governor was to hold three separate inaugural balls and invite everyone in the state to attend. He stocked the closets of the Governor's mansion with two dozen apple-red vests, his personal trademark, and ordered a deluxe blue Chevy van to replace the official limousine. Not long after that, he signed a $946-million tax cut, the biggest in the state's history, which gave delighted Wisconsinites a reprieve from state income taxes in their May and June paychecks...
...former professor of mass communications who became chancellor of the University of Wisconsin's Stevens Point campus at 41, Dreyfus is a self-styled "Republicrat." He only joined the G.O.P. in December of 1977. "If you're going to take 'em over, the least you can do is join 'em," he says. An accomplished orator, he challenged and beat Congressman Robert Kasten, the official party choice, in the 1978 primary. He then went on to defeat Schreiber on a platform of open government, curtailed spending and tax relief. It was quite a feat for a political...
...been slowly mounting. A few boards of trustees have voted full divestiture. Among them, according to the Washington-based Investor Responsibility Research Center: Hampshire College (of $39,000), the University of Massachusetts (of $631,000), Ohio University (of $38,000), Michigan State (of $8.5 million), and the University of Wisconsin (of $11 million). Other colleges have chosen partial divestiture, or selling stock selectively in those companies that fail to observe the Sullivan principles, a set of guidelines established by the Rev. Leon Sullivan, a black civil rights activist and General Motors board member, which outline affirmative-action policies. Among them...
...seventh-seeded Radcliffe heavies shoot past Princeton in the last 30 strokes of the Eastern Sprints to grab third place behind Yale and Wisconsin in the Super Bowl of women's crew in New Preston, Conn...
Cheng was returning to Los Angeles, where he was a faculty member at UCLA, after delivering a lecture at the University of Wisconsin...