Word: ohio
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...trouble, for example, getting volunteers to walk miles of beach all night long in search of egg-laying turtles. For another, less appealing assignment, Blue Magruder, Earthwatch's director of public affairs, somehow found eight paying volunteers for a study of the use of sewage in agriculture in Ohio...
...Mayaguez, only 75 partisans showed up. Watching the Ponce parade, Luisa Rodriguez, an unemployed mother of seven, said, "I don't know if the North Americans want Puerto Rico, but the Puerto Ricans want a better form of life. If there is no statehood, I will move to Ohio. In Ohio, they treat you well...
Congressman Ralph Regula of Ohio recently proposed an alternative: returning the city to Maryland, which donated the land 199 years ago. That idea got scant attention until Governor William Donald Schaefer surprised everyone by saying he would accept "retrocession." But black leaders such as Jesse Jackson have denounced the proposal, Schaefer has backed away, and congressional insiders say forget it. Thus, Washington is likely to remain what statehooders call the last colony for the foreseeable future...
...convictions against individuals and corporations, yielding fines of $26 million and prison sentences totaling 270 years. Among the defendants: Ashland Oil, fined $2.25 million last year for the collapse of a storage tank near Pittsburgh that discharged more than 700,000 gal. of diesel fuel into the Monongahela and Ohio rivers; Texaco, fined $750,000 in 1988 for failing to conduct important safety tests on a California off-shore drilling rig; and Ocean Spray Cranberries, fined $400,000 in 1988 for discharging acidic waste water from its processing plant in Middleboro, Mass...
Flying at 30,000 ft. over the frozen flatlands of Ohio, where a winter storm was barreling eastward, the Gulfstream jet shuddered violently. The big man in the comfortable leather seat looked sharply toward the cockpit, as if to ask "What the hell is going on in there?" He has been wearing that expression quite a bit lately, for the man is Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca, 65, and he has been weathering a storm of his own for the past few months. Even the elegant corporate jet on which he flew last week was symbolic of the crisis. A week...