Word: ohio
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CRIME: Georgia approved a two-strike rule that mandates tougher penalties for violent felons. California adopted sentences of 25 years to life for three- time felons. Oregon stiffened mandatory sentences for violent crimes. Ohio eliminated the appeals-court phase in death sentences...
...academic institutions and athletic powerhouses are more and more frequently becoming mutually exclusive. People who point to schools like Ohio State and Alabama as examples of school spirit need look no further than their U.S. News and World Report rankings to understand the difference...
...Murphy] comes in and changes things up a little, and you realize that everything we do is what Ohio State, Michigan and Florida State would do," Anderson says. "There's an excitement because you're a big-time college football player...
...right now and people were spending more, the inflation danger would be much more real than it is now," Rivlin told reporters. "You'd have rapid increases in interest rates, and probably throw the economy into a recession." Republicans fired back: Rep. John Kasich (R-Ohio) said any GOP tax cut would be offset by spending cuts, and tweaked Rivlin for partisanship. "I think she needs to take a chill pill," he said...
...control and the North American Free Trade Agreement. But Clinton aides admit that these G.O.P. Representatives will be under intense pressure from their leaders to toe the line. In the Senate, Republican moderates are stepping down or struggling to win, while much more conservative Republicans such as Ohio's Michael DeWine and Missouri's John Ashcroft are expected to cruise to victory. The result may be that just as Clinton moves to the middle, he will have a much narrower pond in which to fish for votes...