Word: columbus
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More than a third of Forbes' current supporters in the poll preferred Dole last November. Many of them cite Forbes' ideas and outsider status for their change of heart. "He's not looking over his shoulder at what somebody thinks about him," says Richard Riley, a retired geologist in Columbus, Ohio, and former Dole supporter. "Forbes energizes me." The next-biggest pool of new support for Forbes is among such people as Warren Snyder, a Suffolk, Virginia, phone-company worker who was undecided last fall. "I'm really against the people in Washington. I think Forbes might be refreshing," says...
...survived by his wife, the former Emily Robinsonl; his mother, Pearl Campbell and stepfather, Clyde Campbell of Columbia, S.C.; a daughter, Virginia Wilkins of Madison, Conn; two sons, Robinson of Madison, Conn. and Richard of Wayland, Mass.; two sisters, Joan Underwood of Columbia, S.C. and Mary Lynn Musgrove of Columbus, Ohio; a stepbrother, George Campbell of Levonia, Mich.; and five grandchildren...
When Bob Gingrich rotated back to Fort Benning, Georgia, Newt attended Baker High School in nearby Columbus. He quickly earned a reputation as brainy and eccentric. At Baker High, he emceed the school talent show, rattling off a string of corny jokes. The kids started booing. But he stayed cocky. If they didn't like a joke, throw money, he told the audience. He walked off the stage with $19. Newt was voted "Most Intellectual" in his senior class. In the high school yearbook, the quote under his picture read "Specialization may produce success, but greatness is acquired only through...
...agreement can't be reached, the mail would still be delivered and air traffic controllers would stay on the job as more than half of the 2 million federal employees still report to work. None would receive paychecks until a deal is reached. The last shutdown, which occurred on Columbus Day weekend in 1990, mainly affected tourists who were closed out of museums and monuments. But even that one day off had its price: according to the General Accounting Office, the 1990 closing cost taxpayers $1.7 million for closing federal facilities and missing contractual obligations...
Wise said the system, which currently contains 11,110 mailboxes, 1,500 of which belong to students, ran out of memory a few weeks ago during Columbus Day weekend, preventing callers from leaving messages...