Word: ohio
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...diamond merchants packed up and headed west, with $93 and a scholarship in his pocket, following the star his family had missed. He attended Baldwin-Wallace College near Cleveland, Ohio, filled with the impatience of his own promise. He was working on a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania when one day he realized that he didn't have the money to get a pair of broken eyeglasses repaired. It was a revelation; there would never be money in philosophy, he reasoned, so he promptly quit school to take a job in electronics. Eight years later, he switched...
...killed and the two who shot them). Whatever factors led Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11, to fire on their fellow students should be sought out and eliminated. The death penalty is not the issue in this case. How do you deter an anomaly? JULIUS ZIMMERMAN Richmond Heights, Ohio...
MITCHELL JOHNSON, 13, was "shocked" at what the press wrote about him, so he wanted to explain publicly why he and ANDREW GOLDEN, 11, shot up their Arkansas school, killing four classmates and a teacher. So says Tom Furth, the Ohio lawyer hired by the boy's father. Last Friday ABC's BARBARA WALTERS on 20/20 was prepared to air Mitch Johnson's version of the day of the shooting, as related by Furth. But that afternoon the piece was abruptly dropped...
Consider First Chicago, which encourages those with Self-Service checking accounts to use ATMs by charging $3 for a visit to a live teller for some transactions. First Chicago announced a merger last week with Banc One Corp. Banc One, based in Columbus, Ohio, does business in 12 states and charges account holders if they use one of its own Rapid Cash Machines. "[The banks] say these mergers create efficiencies," says Mary Griffin of Consumers Union. "But with the efficiencies there is a dis-economy of scale, which costs consumers more." In other words, it costs to save. That...
Some test centers in California, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida were affected, but the Boston-area test administrations appear to be untainted, according to Andrea Wilson, a spokesperson for Kaplan Educational Centers, which prepares students for the MCAT...