Word: oregon
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...Grande line, which runs from Utah to Missouri, is a good match for the Southern Pacific system, which stretches from Oregon and California over to Texas and Louisiana and up to Missouri. But opponents of the deal may try to persuade the ICC to block it. Kansas City Southern Industries wants to buy Southern Pacific, and so do union leaders representing the railroad's employees...
...more than a few hustlers in search of freebies, Parker has a reputation for scrupulous probity. He never attends sponsored wine festivals or goes on paid junkets; last year alone he spent $67,000 (tax deductible) on wines for tasting. When his brother-in-law bought a vineyard in Oregon, Parker informed his Advocate readers and promised never to review any wines produced there...
...other hand, Parker believes the American consumer has never before had access to so much good wine from so many different sources. As examples, he cites the stunning improvement of wines from Oregon, Australia, Spain and Chile. No wonder Parker intends to keep on tasting and writing (a Burgundy book is in the works, and one on California is at the planning stage) as long as he can. "I've got a wonderful job. And the feedback from the people I write for is wonderful...
...would be under Gramm-Rudman). Republicans griped that the package relied too much on taxes. Several critics said the $30.2 billion in estimated savings for fiscal 1988 will hardly make a dent in the deficit for that year, which Congress projects will be $179.9 billion. Senator Bob Packwood, an Oregon Republican, called the budget package a "miserable little pittance." Congressman Newt Gingrich was even more acerbic in his appraisal. "It's a perfect summit deal for Thanksgiving vacation," said the Georgia Republican. "These leaders labored and produced the largest turkey of them...
...James Goldsmith, is not exactly penniless anymore. His net worth is estimated to be more than $1.2 billion, including holdings ranging from the Grand Union grocery chain to a publishing house in Paris to some oil wells in Guatemala to about 2.5 million acres of rich timberland in Washington, Oregon and Louisiana. And because he liquidated most of his French and British holdings in recent months -- "I've got my bundle," he likes to say in these postcrash days -- he has $300 million in cash and short-term securities. That success not only makes him a potentially major predator...