Word: ohio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MACEDONIA, Ohio: The 20 or so disgruntled workers who walked out of McDonaldland last month went back to work after a five-day strike, but they're still hungry for justice. And they're bringing in the Teamsters...
Recently he saw the strength of Internet friendship. A member of a Third Age chat group who calls himself "Skyhook" had a severe reaction to medication while he was online. Skyhook, a quadriplegic, was home alone in Ohio. The online group kept him alert while someone called 911. A few months later, Firman and some other members of the chat group paid a visit to Skyhook. After they saw his mobile home, they contacted Ohio social services, which helped make the dwelling more wheelchair accessible and updated his computer...
...kind of Mercedes executive who can bridge that gap and make this marriage work. A former apprentice mechanic, he arrived in Stuttgart in 1987 and made--and later unmade--an ill-fated deal with Dutch aerospace firm Fokker. He also did a stint at a Daimler division in Cleveland, Ohio. When Daimler fell deep in the red in the mid-'90s, he embarked on a series of American-style cost-cutting programs that reduced the work force by some 20,000 and the number of operating businesses from 35 to 23, earning himself the nickname "Neutron Juergen," in honor...
First-person accounts of great events are usually the most fascinating, and Richard Holbrooke's tale of the cliffhanger that culminated in the 1995 Dayton, Ohio, peace accords is no exception. To End a War (Random House; 432 pages; $27.95) is a riveting book...
...team's first visit to Sarajevo. This traumatic event permeates the narrative--a grim reminder that great enterprises may demand great sacrifices. Holbrooke's frantic pre-Dayton shuttle often took him to three countries in a single day. Once all the parties had been safely corralled in Ohio, he unleashed a classic 21-day exercise in lock-up, great-power diplomacy. The outcome of this exhausting and often acrimonious marathon was in doubt until literally the very last hour...