"After a while, you just kind of know, " he said during a news conference at Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind.

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Columbia, Mo. topped the overall list but Bloomington, Ind. ranked highest when it came to working weekends, and employees in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

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Some Big Ten veterans say the mass slowdown coincided with one seminal event: the arrival of a certain red-sweatered fellow in Bloomington, Ind.

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