Word: hillsboro
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What's the point of paying a professional to manage your money when you can do just as good a job, if not better, on your own? That was the question Hillsboro, Ore., computer consultant Larry Taylor, 40, and his friends asked themselves three years ago. Sick of sitting on the sidelines of a raging bull market, watching individual stocks skyrocket as their mutual funds crawled along, Taylor's crew decided to take matters into their own hands. Pooling assets, they chose a diversified portfolio of tech, pharmaceutical and manufacturing stocks and have enjoyed 30% annual returns ever since...
...Stover are causing dozens of jumpy citizens to call FAA with UFO sightings. Eleven blimps are flying somewhere around the country, and there will be 13 by 1998. That's almost double the blimpage of a year ago. Most of them are made by the American Blimp Corp. of Hillsboro, Ore., which has designed a blimpette, that is, one so small (130 ft.), so bright (it's interior lighted) and so cheap (about $1.75 million) that four blimps circled the Super Bowl this year. Last Monday the company introduced a larger, Goodyear-size blimp (rented by Sanyo, it's flying...
...highway, unaffiliated with any denomination, equipped like a high school, catering to a niche in the soul. It accounts for the blinding growth of exurban enclaves, filled with people fleeing not just the big cities but also the small ones--setting off from Dayton, Ohio, to settle in Hillsboro, even if it means an hour's drive to work...
JERRY PROVENZANO (D) District 9 BORN: Dec. 3, 1948, Tampa EDUCATION: Hillsboro Community College, A.A., 1971; U of South Florida, B.A., 1973 FAMILY: Wife, Fran; one child RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Publishing executive; communications-company president POLITICAL CAREER: Oldsmar city council, 1987-91, mayor, 1991-95 ADDRESS: P.O. Box 2165, Oldsmar...
...that works out to nearly $190,000 per job. (New Mexico's unemployment rate stands at 6.3%, compared with 7.6% for California.) Oregon used property-tax abatements to help land two more Intel facilities--a $735 million plant expansion in Aloha and a new $2.2 billion microchip factory in Hillsboro...