Word: ohio
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...another move hailed as a gain for women's rights, Schaefer last week commuted the sentences of eight women convicted of killing or assaulting men who had battered them. In December, Ohio's outgoing Governor Richard F. Celeste granted clemency to 26 such women. Feminist groups are urging other Governors to take similar action...
...fourth quarter, reported by the Energy Department last week. Thanks mostly to a brief rise in the price of crude to a high of $40, those earnings rose 77% above 1989's level. "We are protecting their oil with American boys," complains Senator Howard Metzenbaum, the Ohio Democrat who introduced a bill earlier this month calling for a surtax on the profits of the largest companies. "As quick as Saddam raised his sword, the oil companies raised their prices...
...Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and the ensuing run-up of petroleum prices. The firms included Chevron, which last week reported earnings of $633 million for the fourth quarter of 1990, an eightfold increase over the final quarter of the previous year. After such reports, Democrats Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio and Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut introduced a Senate bill for a windfall- profits tax on Big Oil to help...
...little luck (and an increase in predation by native fish like the freshwater drum), the zebra mussel may yet be brought under control. In fact, some evidence suggests that the mussel population in Lake Erie may have peaked. "There are many ways to kill the zebra mussel," observes Ohio State entomologist Susan Fisher. "The trick is to do it selectively" without wiping out other aquatic life. Fisher has recently found that minute traces of potassium, nontoxic to other organisms, reliably send zebra mussels into fatal shock. Paints laced with potassium, she speculates, might protect underwater structures from mussel infestation. Physiologist...
...institution by the end of the year. But the agency will have to swallow up to $6 billion of sour loans, and the messy task of liquidating them, to make the deal appealing to buyers. The FDIC said it was talking with six possible suitors for the banks, including Ohio's prosperous Banc One Corp. and San Francisco-based BankAmerica Corp., the second largest U.S. banking company behind Citicorp in New York City...