Word: ohio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposed amendment, by Sen. Mitch McConnell(R-Ky.), on airborne drug control was rejected52-48 after Senator John Glenn (D-Ohio) arguedthat the plan would put innocent civilian fliersat risk...
...camera provides fine angles of Nevada, Ohio, and California settings. Fraker shoots from a low, upward angle, framing expansive vistas inside four-story jails and outside suburban homes. Scenes of Jimmie at work as an airplane engineer, combined with Howard Shore's music (he composed scores for After Hours and Big), seem like an American Airlines commercial. That's how slick they...
Ralph, 60, who customarily wears red-and-blue-checked shirts and blue jeans, drives around the 12,000-acre Ukraina collective farm, which lies just 100 miles from the Rumanian border, as if it were his own 2,000-acre spread in Ohio. He walks the fields, checking the condition of the crops, and drops by smelly cow barns and even smellier pig farms to dispense tips about raising livestock. In the evening Ralph gives lectures and shows American agricultural films. Christine, 54, a petite ex-schoolteacher, likes to engage the farmers and their families in conversation...
...Dulls' idealism remains intact, but they have reached some conclusions that discomfort their Communist hosts. "To me the primary objective of socialism is to meet the basic needs of the workers and not to exploit their labor," says Ralph. "I think we're doing that in our farm in Ohio, because all the workers are doing their own managing, owning, and sharing the benefits and risks. They are not exploiting anyone else's cheap labor." Left unsaid is that in the Soviet Union, the situation may be exactly the reverse. Says Ralph: "If any of these state farms were...
...should I waste my time sitting on a tractor?" Dull replied in an interview in the daily Izvestia. "There are already 40 extra people here to do that." In Ohio, says Dull, he and his three sons and one son-in-law run the farm themselves; in the Ukraine, he estimates, an operation of the same size would require the services of 140 workers and six supervisors...