Word: cincinnati
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...partner and design director of C.F. Murphy Associates in Chicago; at 43 he was owner and chief executive officer of Murphy/Jahn. Today, employing 100 architects, Jahn has five buildings under construction in Manhattan. Other projects are under way or just finished in Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Los Angeles and Johannesburg...
...Devine, that well-named but peculiar fellow whose era fell between Parseghian's and Faust's, won a national championship and two Cotton Bowls. But he lacked the style that this rumpled Cincinnati missionary, with his high-decibel enthusiasm and 174-17-2 prep record, had in spades. The faithful were ready to love Faust before they ever heard his wonderfully hoarse voice, more like Andy Devine's than Dan's, and impressions of Faust were hardly damaged by the news that he had been whistling the Notre Dame fight song since the age of ten. Besides, despite a devoutness...
...savings and loan industry also had its troubles. In March customers of 69 S and Ls in Ohio stampeded to withdraw money when the failure of a Cincinnati thrift threatened to bankrupt the state's private deposit-insurance fund. Ohio Governor Richard Celeste temporarily closed the S and Ls and required them to apply for federal insurance. Two months later, Maryland Governor Harry Hughes seized temporary control of 102 institutions after a similar panic developed...
...gathered at the Marriott Hotel to swap horror stories and pep talks. Under present legal rules, "you're afraid to try anything, put any new product on the market," cried Gust Headbloom, president of Michigan's Apex Broach & Machinery Co. Peter J. Nord, president of Schauer Manufacturing Corp. in Cincinnati, which makes battery-charging machines, drew loud applause by declaring, "There are going to be people who are dumb and stupid and screw up no matter what we do." Ohio Democratic Congressman Thomas Luken showed up to cheer on the manufacturers. Said he: "Probably no recent issue has snowballed...
...policies three times between November 1984 and last April, though the nine-year-old company has never been sued. Because customers demand proof of insurance before they will give Specialty any business, the company wound up buying a $500,000 policy from the Great American Insurance Co. of Cincinnati, on which it will pay at least $460,000 in premiums, an increase of more than 4,900% over the $9,361 premium on its last fullyear policy. Says Specialty President Frederick Treadway: "About half a million dollars paid to the insurance company for virtually nothing...