Word: ohio
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...trial lawyer whose challenge to the practice was turned back by the North Carolina supreme court last month, is hardly alone in attacking the use of taxpayer funds in the relocation sweepstakes. "We're spending billions of dollars to fund the moving van," says state senator Charles Horn of Ohio, which trucked more than $2.4 billion last year to lure or keep companies in industries ranging from banking to steel. "In the process, we're draining our budgets in education, research and technology--the very things our future depends...
...Mystery writer Mary Higgins Clark yesterday during a speech in Dayton, Ohio on how to become a writer...
...story begins on the banks of Lake Erie, in Willowick, Ohio (pop. 15,469). It is the last Monday night in January, about 9 o'clock. City councilman Frank Suponcic is home with his wife Linda when the phone rings. Linda answers. "Hi, this is Mike," says the man at the other end, politely enough. Linda chats with Mike, figuring he must be a constituent. (As Willowick's longest-serving ward councilman, Suponcic has lots of voters calling him at home.) After a while, Mike asks for Annette. Linda tells him he has the wrong number. Mike apologizes and hangs...
Suponcic, being a public official, knew his way around the local police department, and soon a detective started pounding the Net. By tracing the header information on the Usenet postings, the detective determined--O.K., this part is murky, we admit--that the messages had originated in Ohio, passed through Florida Online, an Internet provider in the Sunshine State, and then through anon.penet.fi a free E-mail remailer service based in Finland that allows Internet users to post messages anonymously...
...Powell are pro-choice. Buchanan has threatened to launch an independent run for the White House if the Republican ticket and platform are not anti-abortion. Whitman's announcement leaves a quartet of Midwest governors as the leading vice- presidential contenders. Illinois' Jim Edgar, Michigan's John Engler, Ohio's George Voinovich and Wisconsin's Tommy Thompson all played visible roles in Dole's Midwest campaign earlier this month...