Word: ohio
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...Beat Baylor 49-6 3. UCLA 8-0-0 Beat Oregon State 41-34 4. Florida 8-1-0 Beat Vanderbilt 45-13 5. Florida State 9-1-0 Beat No. 20 Virginia 45-14 6. Texas A&M 9-1-0 Beat Oklahoma 29-0 7. Ohio State 8-1-0 Lost to Michigan St, 28-24 8. Wisconsin 9-0-0 Beat Minnesota 26-7 9. Arizona 9-1-0 Beat Washington State 41-7 10. Arkansas 8-0-0 Beat Mississippi 34-0 11. Nebraska 8-2-0 Beat Iowa State 42-7 12. Notre Dame...
...OHIO Does GM Mean General Movers...
...process of auctioning its surviving jobs to the highest bidders in the communities where it does business. Here's how it works: during the summer of 1997, GM let it be known that it was considering a $355 million expansion of an assembly plant in Moraine, Ohio, to build sport-utility vehicles. The decision would hinge on the size of tax breaks granted by the city government. After all, two other cities with GM truck plants--Shreveport, La., and Linden, N.J.--were vying for the new facility. At least that is what GM officials hinted to Moraine officials. And that...
...necessarily. Other communities have showered tax breaks on GM and its partners, assuming they would create or at least retain jobs. They were wrong. Volvo-GM closed a jointly owned plant (GM was the minority partner) in Orrville, Ohio, in 1996--just seven years after the county cut property and inventory taxes in half. Some 400 jobs were lost. The two automakers moved operations to Pulaski County, Va., where millions of dollars more in economic incentives awaited...
...Ohio state senator Charles Horn, a persistent critic of tax abatements, put it when commenting on concessions granted GM, "We know companies are manipulative, but it's the nature of business to go after every dollar that's legally available. Don't place the blame on the company; place the blame on government. This is government's folly...