Word: oregon
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California's deficit is trifling compared with Oregon's, which will be at least $400 million and could reach $1.6 billion (the latter total would be more than 50% of the state's $3 billion budget). Reason: Oregon's lumber-based economy has all but collapsed in the housing slump. With unemployment at 10.1% and personal income and business taxes plummeting (the state has no sales tax), legislators will meet in January, their third attempt in a year to devise emergency measures. Possible solutions: a stiff income tax surcharge and new "sin" taxes on cigarettes...
...pushed himself some more six weeks ago, when he completed the Nike Marathon in Eugene, Oregon...
...Senator, Oregon...
...failing to win passage of the antiabortion bill. "We're closer to victory than ever before." But others felt that the movement had come as close as it ever will. "This was the last great push for the Moral Majority types," said Senator Bob Packwood, the moderate Oregon Republican who led the bipartisan filibuster against Helms. "They've peaked...
Baker nevertheless began lining up his troops. Orrin Hatch of Utah, who was on the campaign trail with Reagan at the time, and Paul Laxalt of Nevada were hurriedly flown back to Washington on an Air Force jet. Interior Secretary James Watt was dispatched to Oregon to handle a speaking engagement for Malcolm Wallop so that the Wyoming Senator could return to the capital. Reagan called nearly 20 Senators...