Word: oregon
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...Where Oregon officials are concerned, half a loaf is worse than none at all. State law specifies that no commercially sold bread may weigh less than 15 oz. That would prohibit the popular baguette, the lean French bread that weighs in at a stylish 8 oz. Crusty authorities cracked down on baguettes in January, getting a rise out of Oregonians who love the bread's light, crispy texture. The 1939 bread law was written to protect consumers against "balloon bread" that had more air than dough. But doubling the weight of the 2-ft.-long baguette would mean doubling...
...confusion began last week, when Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, unveiled his tax-reform plan. Buried in the 250-page document was a two-sentence proposal to subject tax-exempt securities, like municipal bonds, to an "alternative minimum tax." The idea was that upper-income people who use municipal bonds as a shelter and pay little or no taxes would be subject to a 20% tax on the interest from the securities...
Indeed he does. Reaction was so intense that the Oregon Senator's colleagues urged him to back off. New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan deplored the idea because it would levy the tax retroactively on bondholders who had bought securities under the assumption that they would be tax exempt. Minnesota Senator David Durenberger circulated a letter signed by himself and nine other Senators on the 20-member Finance Committee decrying the "devastating impact" of Packwood's provision...
Predicting an eventual resurgence of the GOP's progressive wing, Coleman cites Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kansas), Sen. Charles Mathias (R-Maryland), Sen. Robert Packwood (R-Oregon), and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass) as the top leaders in the Senate...
Preachers who purchase airtime frequently offer books, calendars, lapel pins and whatnot to those who phone or write in. Viewers requesting "premiums" often send checks, but the preachers' real goal is to build a computerized name list for future direct-mail solicitation. One prominent evangelist, Oregon-based Hispanic Luis Palau, complains with some justification, "When you try to talk to somebody about Jesus Christ in America, they immediately think all you want is to get their name, address and ZIP code...