Word: oregon
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...states were: Colorado, Georgia, lowa, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, Okiahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington, and Wisconsin...
...Oregon, voters appeared to have rejected a proposal to limit property tax rates to 1.5% of the assessed valuation and to roll back assessments to their 1981 levels. A new wrinkle, borrowed from Jarvis' Proposition 36, would have limited the ability of officials to impose fees on various municipal services to make up for the forgone tax money...
While it espouses free trade, the Administration already has granted requests for restrictions on such imports as motorcycles, cars and steel. Nor is it just older industries that are protesting. "Most hightech companies have been very hard hit," says C. Norman Winningstad, chairman of Floating Point Systems, an Oregon computer company. Allen Paulson, the chairman of Savannah's Gulfstream Aerospace, is blunt about the strong dollar's impact: "Somebody has to put an end to this insanity...
...Mary Mochary (R) 927.231 36 New Mexico Judy Pratt (D) 119.198 28 85 E--Pete (R) 303.313 72 North Carolina (D) Jim Hunt (D) 809.088 48 79 E--Jesse Helms (R) 869.287 52 Oklahoma E--David Borens (D) 707 717 76 84 Bill Croner (R) 212.217 23 Oregon Marge Hendrikson (D) 71.992 34 28 E--Mark Hatheld (R) 140 713 66 Rhode Island E--Claiborne Pell (D) 276.245 73 99 Barbara Leonard (R) 103.294 27 South Carolina Melvin Purvis (D) 224.111 32 73 Thurmond (R) 464.279 66 South Dakota George Cunningham (D) 47,129 26 61 E--Barry Pressler...
With the cutoff of voter registration for the November election set for this week in Oregon, and with fears growing of a Wasco County coup by the Rajneeshees, County Clerk Sue Proffitt took unusual action. She announced that she was automatically rejecting all new applications for voter registration. Each applicant, she said, could seek a hearing at which his or her eligibility would be decided. She was doing so, she said, to stop "organized efforts to fraudulently register people." The cumbersome process would effectively stall any massive Rajneesh registration...