Word: ohio
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SPONSOR: Congressman Ralph Regula, Republican of Ohio...
...school secretary, with very little. She remarried, and O'Rourke detested her new husband. "I was a fairly unhappy kid with a very active fantasy life," he remembers. He left home in high school, then returned for a short time before studying English at Miami University in Ohio. He recently married 26-year-old Amy Lumet, daughter of film director Sidney Lumet and also Lena Horne's granddaughter, and the couple split their time between a 60-acre spread in Shannon, N.H., where Amy is completing college, and a spacious apartment in Washington...
Here are some of the burdens Gorbach carries: in four of the past eight years, in schools in Ohio and New York as well as California, he has taught without any textbooks at all. Those that he absolutely needs, he pays for himself. "Homework is pretty well out of the question," he says. At one point he had an annual paper budget of 2,000 sheets for five classes of 28 children each. So if each student used one sheet a day, he would run out in three weeks. "If I want to give a test, I buy the paper...
...suggesting that customers order such items as a king-size drink or a slice of pie, worked so well that some employees boosted their wages more than 75 cents an hour during the first quarter, from about $4.25. Says Wendy Lane, 23, a restaurant worker in St. Clairsville, Ohio, who added $70 to her paycheck in March: "All I had to do was a little bit more to make our guests happy. What it all comes down to is that the bonus was a real motivator...
...desperate to slash payrolls further and get more bang for their labor bucks. "People are beginning to understand that the world is moving ahead at a fast clip and that global competition is so fierce that the future of American manufacturing industries is at stake," says Lawrence Bankowski, the Ohio-based president of the American Flint Glass Workers Union, which has lost nearly half its 36,000 members during the past 15 years. Concurs Mike Rohret, a human-resources manager at a Fisher Controls plant in Iowa that is testing a variable-pay plan: "If we didn't manufacture here...