Word: ohio
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...that the Democrats should push a bipartisan effort for property tax exemptions for the elderly who own homes assessed at less than $15,000 and for at least a 25% increase in Social Security benefits. That uncomplicated legislative program, coupled with some hard campaigning in states like California, Florida, Ohio, Michigan and New York -all of which have large populations of older voters-could mean a switch of 1,000,000 to the Democratic presidential candidate, Cohen contends...
...Muskie headquarters on election night, 1972, the candidate watches in stunned silence. Pennsylvania, a swing state, has already gone Republican, with surprising Nixon strength turning up in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Illinois and Ohio are slipping away from the Democrats, thanks to similar Nixon support in the cities...
...Ohio business machine salesman, Bowen went through Denison University on scholarship and was the first member of his family to graduate from college. He did his graduate work in economics at Princeton on scholarship, and in 1965, at 31, became the second-youngest full professor in the school's modern history. As an economist, he has specialized in studies of concrete, practical concerns; his best-known book is an analysis of the financial problems of the performing arts in the U.S. Youthful enough to pass for a junior instructor, Bowen, who is married...
...Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson wrote of "grotesques," people who took a single truth to themselves, called it theirs and tried to live by it. "It was the truths that made the people grotesques," Anderson said. Once embraced so singlemindedly, any truth "became a falsehood...
Horatio's Stand. The impact of the coalworkers' settlement hit quickly. Officials of the Old Ben Coal Corp., a subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. of Ohio, asked the Price Commission for a 6.7% price increase to cover fresh wage costs. The case will be decided this week. Commission members are well aware that coal operators unhappy with domestic prices can further increase their fast-rising export shipments, which are not subject to price controls. Coal users already protest that the companies are exporting too much, and that the result could be a dangerous winter shortage of fuel...