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• Madison: Economy

  - 2005-01-01

  Madison: EconomyMajor Industries and Commercial ActivityThe principal economic sectors in Madison are manufacturing, services, and government. Meat packing and the production of agriculture and dairy equipment have long been established industries in the city; among other items produced by area manufacturing firms are hospital equipment, advanced instrumentation, storage batteries, and...

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• Wisconsin Crops Struggle amid Dry Weather; Farmers Worried about Profits.

  - 2003-09-06

  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 6--Amid a 10-month dry spell that has seen precipitation drop by as much as half in parts of southeastern Wisconsin, gardeners, farmers and urban foresters are either frantically watering vegetation or watching helplessly as...

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• Rethinking Dairyland: Background For Decisions About Wisconsin's Dairy Industry

  BNET - 2002-08-01

  This paper analyzes benefits and costs for the U.S. and Wisconsin dairy industries stemming from international trade in dairy products. The focus is on the URWTO agreement and the NAFTA, and on benefits and costs as commonly perceived by dairy industry participants - not on broader economic efficiency and welfare...

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• Seed and Venture Capital Formulation: Essential to High-Tech Business Job Growth

  BNET - 2000-11-13

  The ability to generate and sustain high technology companies and employment in Wisconsin is dependent on three general factors: equity investment capacity, human resources, and a supply of technologies and business ideas. Investment capacity is clearly the one key area where Wisconsin suffers from comparative disadvantage versus other states in...

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• U. Of Wisconsin To Help Build Telescope In Africa - University of Wisconsin helping to build Southern African Large Telescope - Brief Article

  - 2000-08-31

  MADISON, WIS. University of Wisconsin-Madison astronomers will help build a telescope in South Africa powerful enough to peer deep into distant galaxies. The $35 million Southern African Large Telescope, to be built on a mountaintop at the edge of the Kalahari Desert, will be the largest telescope in...

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• Sense of placement

  - 1995-02-08

  Thompson Consulting Ltd. likes Wisconsin. The Brookfield firm has grown and gained market share in the outplacement consulting business while keeping its operations in the state. All of the firm's offices and 42 employees are in Wisconsin. More than 400 Wisconsin employers have used...

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