Word: ohio
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More and more city officials are discovering that it can cost some 15% less to hire a private garbage contractor than to run their own frequently featherbedded sanitation system. The city of Middletown, Ohio, for example, recently signed a threeyear, $1,000,000 contract with a private collection firm that will save the city an estimated $350,000. This week, for the first time in its history, Chicago will have a private firm process some of its refuse; Waste Management, Inc., will compact and dump into its own landfill up to 1,000 tons of garbage a day. Other cities...
Also up for grabs will be the Big Ten championship, with either third-ranked Michigan, ninth-rated Ohio State, Purdue, of Michigan State taking...
More states began to fall to Nixon, Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, West Virginia. Then the District of Columbia went for McGovern. Three electoral votes. Maybe if he carried New York and California--and Texas. But Nixon had already hit the triple figures. The 270 electoral votes needed to win were barely out of reach. A Coke commercial came on showing respectful young faces at the marble throne of Abraham Lincoln. There were seraphim singing in the background...
HOME: Columbus, Ohio...
...seven largest states, where McGovern made a major effort, he received no better than 44 per cent of the vote. Nixon carried California and Michigan with 56 per cent of the vote, took New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois with 60 per cent, and won Texas by a whopping 67 per cent...