Word: ohio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...since the landmark Webster decision last July. In a 5-to-4 vote, the Justices upheld a Minnesota law requiring unwed teenagers to notify both parents before an abortion if the law allows minors to go to a judge instead. In a 6-to-3 vote, the court upheld Ohio's requirement that a physician notify one parent of a pregnant minor of her intent to have an abortion; it also provided for judicial bypass...
They seemed to be on a roll. And going by Harvard's general luck in the nationals in the past--the Crimson had won the heavyweight title at the prestigious Cincinnati Regatta for the past three years--most of the rowers believed they would leave Ohio with the national title...
...deluge of rain began as dusk fell over the Appalachians in eastern Ohio. By 11 p.m. 5 1/2 in. had pounded the foothills and cascaded into the hollows. In Shadyside, a village of 4,300 people along the Ohio River, residents were unaware that in the darkness a 40-ft. wall of water had risen in Wegee Creek, which is usually ankle deep, and was rolling toward them. It hit with enough force to knock frame houses off their foundations, carry mobile homes downstream and buckle the concrete walls of a tavern. One patron was carried away by the water...
Despite its reputation for loosening the restraints on sexual expression, the Supreme Court in recent terms has been making things easier for the anti- obscenity prosecutions. The court recently upheld an Ohio law that made it illegal to possess child pornography. Last year it okayed the use of powerful racketeering laws to seize the assets of pornographers...
...case revolves around a 1974 brawl at a high school wrestling match in Lake County, Ohio. As a result of that fracas, former wrestling coach Michael Milkovich was officially censured and his team put on probation. The penalties, however, were set aside after a court hearing. That led indignant sports columnist J. Theodore Diadiun to write in the Lake County News-Herald: "Anyone who attended the meet . . . knows in his heart that Milkovich and ((school superintendent H. Donald)) Scott lied at the hearing after each having given his solemn oath to tell the truth. But they got away with...