Word: madison
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...addition to New York, five other cities provide bereavement leave for domestic partners: Los Angeles; Madison, Wis.; San Francisco; Seattle; and Takoma Park, Md. The only cities that currently offer health benefits to the domestic partners of employees are three in California: Berkeley, Santa Cruz and West Hollywood. State governments, which have the real authority to legislate family and marriage laws, have so far shied away from the issue. But across the country, major efforts are under way to change the laws...
...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...
CALIFORNIANS and graduates of posh suburban high schools are guilty of popularizing one of Madison Avenue's most banal advertising campaigns...
Anderson's new home was donated by a church in nearby Pearl to a nonprofit organization called MadCAAP -- short for Madison Countians Allied Against Poverty -- which helps poor people in one of the poorest parts of the nation. Financed solely by donations and grants, MadCAAP takes old wood-frame buildings that local communities and private owners no longer need and hauls them to new sites. There volunteers from local churches and schools join with families that have been aided in the past to install wiring, put up paneling and dig septic tanks. Over the past six years MadCAAP has recycled...
...hottest buzz word on Madison Avenue is fast becoming perestroika. The latest sign of Soviet chic: Moscow unveiled an ad campaign last week to lure U.S. business travelers onto Aeroflot, the national airline. Created by Miami's Kelley Swofford Inc., the ads tempt Americans with "perestroika perks" ranging from complimentary nights in a Moscow hotel to a free Mont Blanc pen "to sign your deal with the Russians...