Word: ohio
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...daring diversification strategy. Determined to end AT&T's humiliation in computers, he decided to buy his way to respectability. AT&T eyed several potential takeover targets, including Apple, EDS, Hewlett-Packard, Data General, Wang and Digital Equipment, before it settled on NCR Corp. AT&T first approached the Ohio-based manufacturer in 1988, but retreated after it was spurned by NCR management. Two years later, AT&T made another bid for NCR, but this time it was a $7.5 billion hostile takeover offer that the company could not resist. AT&T folded most of its money-losing computer operations...
Frank Zindler, a Columbus, Ohio, biologist and biblical scholar, was furious after seeing the special. He had been asked to appear in a subsequent Sun International production called Ancient Secrets of the Bible II, which aired on CBS in May. Zindler backed out of his taping appointment and fired off a letter to CBS, calling the ark program "an attempt to show that modern science is wrong and Bronze Age mythology is correct." Earlier, Zindler began having qualms about his interview when he received instructions from Sun International revealing that "most of the pro-con arguments are pre-scripted...
Within days, similar reports poured in from around the country: more than 50 complaints in 23 states. In New York City, a man claimed that he accidentally swallowed two pins that were in a Pepsi bottle. In Beach City, Ohio, a woman said she found a sewing needle in a can of the soft drink. And in Jacksonville, Florida, a man discovered a screw in his beverage container. Pepsi's chief executive Craig A. Weatherup scurried from Nightline to MacNeil/ Lehrer to the morning network shows, looking concerned and attempting damage control...
...OHIO CONGRESSMAN JOHN KAsich was just musing when he told friends that he and some other Republicans should invite Hillary Rodham Clinton to dinner to talk about health care. To his surprise, Hillary heard about the idea and phoned to accept. Over grilled salmon at Kasich's home last week, Mrs. Clinton and 11 Republicans talked for 2 1/2 hours about the chances for bipartisan cooperation. Result: some differences over specifics, but joint recognition that the public is demanding action...
...Arbor, it's beyond belief. The football stadium holds over 90,000. And they still sell standing-room-only for the Ohio State or Notre Dame game...