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Situated among the rolling hills of southwestern Ohio, Montgomery County is an uncanny microcosm of the rest of the U.S., right down to the renewed obsession with trolls. Last September TIME profiled the region when it was targeted by both the Clinton and Bush campaigns as a critical swing county in a critical state. Among the 96,000 registered Democrats, 66,000 Republicans and 173,000 independents, concern over the economy won out over the county's latent conservatism. Clinton took 41% of the vote, vs. Bush's 40% and Perot...
Either Michigan or Miami, Ohio will take the top spot in the West, whichever wins (or goes furthest) in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association's post-season tournament...
...NCAA Poll 1. Maine (25) 28-0-2 250 2. Michigan 25-2-0 204 3. HARVARD 16-2-2 177 3. Miami, Ohio 20-7-3 177 5. BU 25-6-2 158 6. Minn-Duluth 21-8-1 149 7. Lake Sup St. 18-6-4 103 8. Wisconsin 19-10-1 76 9. RPI 14-6-4 28 10. Mich...
...Clinton may well be the luckiest President in the history of the country," says Don McWhorter, president of Banc One in Columbus, Ohio. The Arkansan took office when cyclical trends were about to cause a long-overdue quickening of the recovery (which, in fact, began in the closing months of the Bush Administration). For example, despite the well-publicized losses at GM, IBM and Sears, corporate profits in general are soaring. Low interest rates have reduced the cost of paying off debt, and downsizing programs have made many companies more competitive. Says Hugh Johnson, financial strategist for the New York...
...industries, which rely heavily on coal-fired electricity and carbon-based fuels." Such objections seem likely to doom the levy. "Forget the carbon tax," says a top Democratic strategist on Capitol Hill. "If you're looking at 1996 -- and they are at the White House -- that would cost them Ohio, Illinois and Pennsylvania...