Word: ohio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Several other colleges and universities, including Hampshire College, the University of Wisconsin, and Ohio State University, have already publicly announced that they will rid themselves of stock in companies that support the South Africa government. To these schools, the obvious repression and denial of human rights that characterize the minority rule in South Africa made their claims as institutions of freedom and learning hypocritical as long as they continued to hold the tainted stocks...
...complaints are part of a chorus of protest against costly personal injury awards especially in product liability and medical malpractice. Jury Verdict Research Inc., an Ohio organization, says that the first such award for $1 million was recorded in 1962. Fifty-nine more were returned in the next ten years, and another 145 in the past five. Under economic pressure, several insurance firms began an aggressive public relations campaign, including up to $10 million worth of hard-hitting "advocacy advertisements" in publications such as TIME, Wall Street Journal and New Republic. The ads point to "windfall awards" and suggest that...
...satisfy Senate forces led by Louisiana Democrats Russell Long and Bennett Johnston, who insist on a free market for natural gas, and Carter, who has repeatedly vowed to veto any bill that abruptly decontrols gas prices. The problem is complicated by another Senate bloc, this one led by Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum and South Dakota's James Abourezk, both of whose states are heavily dependent on natural gas; they therefore demand that a federal lid be kept on gas prices. Democrat Henry Jackson, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, has been struggling for more than...