Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...social laissez-faire, a tolerance for diversity, an intolerance for efforts to legislate morality. The good citizens of Green Bay, Wis., for example, refused to ban the exhibition of obscene material. Californians unhesitatingly rejected an initiative sponsored by Lyndon LaRouchites that could have quarantined AIDS victims. Voters in Massachusetts, Oregon and Rhode Island resisted efforts to restrict a woman's right to have an abortion. Some of the propositions that did pass also reflected a spirit of tolerance for, well, spirits. Voters in Kansas overwhelmingly approved the sale of alcoholic drinks. The last time you could order liquor...
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...Louisiana coast when the petroleum price slump hit and cost him his job. Says he: "It doesn't take long for everything to go to hell. I might never make what I used to." Walter and his family packed up and migrated to Oregon, where they moved in with his wife's parents, and he took a $20,000 welding...
Trivia answer: Harvard beat Oregon...
...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...