Word: oregon
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...featuring such athletic idols as Carlton Fisk of the Chicago White Sox and former Dallas Cowboy Walt Garrison. The amount of snuff sold annually in the U.S. is up 60% since 1978. And while national figures on teenage use are not available, local surveys in Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas and Massachusetts suggest that between 20% and 40% of high school boys are chewing or dipping. No less worrisome is the finding, in Texas, that 55% of young dippers started before age 13. Says an exasperated Ann Ballard, a high school teacher in Houston: "I'm tired of finding cups filled with...
...California, natives of the Indian state of Gujarat, where millions of people bear the family name Patel, operate inexpensive motels from San Diego to the Oregon border. The first Patel was Nanlal, who with a partner bought the old Ford Hotel in Sacramento during World War II. Scores of Patels followed. Naranji Patel, 45, owner of the Sands and Park View lodgings in San Jose, estimates that up to 80% of the state's 1,500 independently run motels with fewer than 25 rooms are in Indian hands. Most lodgings were purchased from small operators who wanted to quit...
...consider these plots. A wily misfit takes on the mind benders in an Oregon psychiatric hospital (Cuckoo's Nest). Hippies raise their voices, and a little hell, against the Viet Nam War (Hair, 1979). A black man is driven by righteousness to lead an armed revolt against white America (Ragtime, 1981). A great but graceless composer battles the musical establishment of Old Vienna (Amadeus). In Forman's American films an irascible individualist is forever butting his head against the walls of official power and getting bashed for his pains. These parables of dreams defeated hold echoes of tales from Forman...
Special interests rebuffed by the House will have a second and better shot in the Senate. Finance Committee Chairman Bob Packwood of Oregon has promised to have "the bill to the President by Christmas," but some colleagues wonder. Only a few months ago, Packwood said he liked the tax code "the way it is." The drive for reform could be delayed or foiled entirely by the Senate's liberal filibuster rules, which allow a single lawmaker to tie up his colleagues for days and even weeks over almost any amendment he wants to make. Steve Symms of Idaho...
...They [Oregon] were representative of the best of the Western crews," said Radcliffe Coach K.C. Dietz...