Word: ohio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many leaders on the Hill supported the theory that Saddam could be wooed into gentility. Senators flew to Baghdad to chat with him. Alan Simpson, a Republican from Wyoming, advised him that his problem was simply his bad image in America's "haughty and pampered press." Howard Metzenbaum, an Ohio Democrat, told Saddam, "I am now aware that you are a strong and intelligent man and that you want peace...
...wind was blowing hard and it was raining the night that Houston bureau chief Richard Woodbury arrived at Cedar Point park in Sandusky, Ohio, for a test spin in the Magnum XL-200, the world's highest (205 ft.) and fastest (72 m.p.h.) roller coaster. Since the weather was expected to worsen, park officials insisted that they crank up Magnum for a ride right away. "Suddenly the gigantic structure was ablaze with lights," recalls Woodbury. "There was no way to argue, and so, as the wind whipped off Lake Erie, I was harnessed into the front seat of a soaking...
Carolyn Pitts runs her palm over the hand-tooled sandstone exterior of an old textile mill. "The stonework is marvelous," she says. "It was obviously ! meant to be a real showpiece." Built in 1849 in Cannelton, Ind., alongside the Ohio River, the brooding, fortress-like structure with twin turrets and heavily bracketed cornice was abandoned in the 1950s. Now the roof is a wreck, and starlings nest inside...
...hatred so fierce as to be nearly inexplicable on rational grounds. The Nixon on view in Yorba Linda is a version carefully controlled by Nixon himself. His is the only President's library built and operated entirely with private funds, except for the Rutherford B. Hayes library in Fremont, Ohio. The library is Nixon's show. It will contain only a very careful selection of the presidential papers. The original papers are stored in a government archives in Alexandria, Va. Nixon has succeeded in blocking the release of 150,000 pages of documents. One can understand...
...Ford, Chrysler and General Motors idled 45 of their 62 U.S. and Canadian plants for up to four weeks in the first half of 1990. Along with the closings, the Big Three have laid off or fired 38,000 workers. "Manufacturers are very cautious," says Stanley Gault, chairman of Ohio-based Rubbermaid, a leading maker of household products. "The economy is just hobbling along...