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...some estimates, marijuana, with a potential street value of $2,000 a plant, is Oregon's largest cash crop. Yet polls show that the proposition is unlikely to pass. Legalizing pot, opponents argue, would make it harder to fight abuse of other drugs and would turn Oregon into America's largest distributor of the weed...
Students are far and away the largest purchasers of tapes at Strawberries 11, at 38 JFK St., where compact discs make up 15 percent of sales, albums make up 35 percent, and tapes comprise the balance of sales. "Mostly it's just kids buying tapes," says store manager Rob M. Nadeau. "Real audiophiles buy strictly albums...
...boring, is Jamie Overstreet (Tommy Redmond Hicks): "I believe that there is one person in this world that was meant to be your soulmate... For me, Nola Darling was that person." Hicks succeeds in making his character less of a chump than he might seem. Jamie plays the largest part in Nola's love life, and is especially useful as a foil for the other two men. After hearing a poem Jamie has composed for Nola, one competitor remarks "Aw, aw, that's the worst piece of shit I've ever heard...I don't mean to badmouth the brother...
Oleinik noted that the Pripyat is the largest tributary of the Dnieper River, which in turn is the region's major waterway and the source of much of Kiev's drinking water...
...Australians, then, were justifiably alarmed to learn that a major source of foreign exchange was about to be cut off by their largest, and allegedly best, ally. Hawke fumed on national TV and, meanwhile, dispatched an emergency delegation to Washington to talk some sense into the Reagan Administration...