Word: ohio
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...federal gasoline tax. Each 1 cents rise would discourage unnecessary driving and add $1 billion to the U.S. Treasury, part of which could in turn be used to develop nonfossil energy sources. The second obvious step is to raise the auto industry's fuel-economy requirements. That, says Ohio Senator Howard Metzenbaum, "could save twice the amount of oil in the Prince William Sound spill every...
Harvard closed out the tournament by defeating Ohio...
Grades, however, can be misleading. What courses are the athletes taking? Several schools have set up special classes for basketball players, giving them academic credit in conjunction with overseas trips. Students at Ohio University, for example, could not have found International Studies 369B in the school's catalog. The four-credit course was tied to a 14-day trip the basketball team took to Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain and France during the 1986 summer vacation. Alan Boyd of the department of sociology and anthropology taught a portion of the course. "Its purpose was to try to help the basketball players...
...appear on Nightline, the first of a slam-bang round of television appearances. Awkward at first, Adams quickly seemed as comfortable as Tom Hanks discussing his latest movie on Johnny Carson's couch. For the moment, prying reporters have become as ever present as guards. On the plane to Ohio, flight attendants passed food trays bucket-brigade style over the backs of cameramen crouched in the aisles...
Nonetheless, Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum, chairman of the Senate antitrust subcommittee and a vocal critic of big mergers, immediately objected to the proposed combination. He acknowledged that the deal did not appear to violate the Government's guidelines for "horizontal concentration" within an industry, but asserted that those "guidelines are clearly inadequate for a complete evaluation of this merger." The Senator expressed concern about companies being involved in both the production and distribution of cable-TV programming. Metzenbaum noted that in most communities there is only one cable operator. He fears that such operators might rely too heavily on programs...