Word: ohio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...served briefly as a White House aide later, Sears has shrewdly used his old contacts around the nation to help his present boss. Reagan's organization has suffered its share of bloopers. Its initial strategy of knocking Ford out early backfired, and it goofed in Ohio, where delegate slates were filed too late, and in Illinois, where it filed weak delegate slates...
...suggesting that the tawdry revelations of Elizabeth Ray, Colleen Gardner and other taxpayer-subsidized playgirls were insignificant. But they were a lot less important than other congressional abuses of power. That was clearly illustrated last week when Congressman Wayne Hays of Ohio was forced to give up his chairmanship of the House Administration Committee. For five years Hays had operated the committee as a personal fief, lavishing perquisites on himself and his colleagues, placing Ohio cronies and relatives of friends on the payroll, junketeering shamelessly−and resisting the few challenges to his power. But it took...
...Congressman Charles Vanik of Ohio admitted retaining a former prostitute on his district-office payroll, even after she had become ill and unable to work. But he insisted he did so out of compassion. Vanik also denied knowledge of her past...
...Exxon, Texaco. Mobil Oil, Standard Oil of California, Gulf Oil. Standard Oil (Ind.). Shell Oil, Atlantic Richfield, Continental Oil. Phillips Petroleum, Union Oil of California, Sun Oil, Ashland Oil, Cities Service, Amerada Hess, Getty Oil, Marathon Oil. Standard Oil (Ohio...
...Asakawa's first novel and he says "what stays and what changes and what brought about that change" is a concern emerging from his own experience as a member of an isolated Japanese-American family in Yellow Springs, Ohio. "It was a very intellectual, predominently Jewish community and if you didn't know how to talk, you were pretty much caught dead," Asakawa said. Consequently, his parents, aware of their American "cultural lackings" and eager to assimilate, encouraged their children to perform un-Japanese customs such as holding conversations at the dinner table...