Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visit to the White House next week. Despite predictions by Senate Majority Leader Baker that the Senate, at least, will not vote to block the sale, a close fight looms. The outcome could depend on how strenuously Reagan personally joins the battle. Conceded Republican Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon, a leading opponent of the sale: "If this is a no-holds-barred fight, I'm not saying...
...lawsuits began. Former managers claimed that the Fraction of the Action was actually a pyramid scheme that indirectly paid off top corporate officials with money put in by the restaurant managers. Charles P. Cattin, a former manager in Portland, Ore., sued Sambo's, charging fraud. Last month an Oregon court awarded him $925,000 in damages. The company paid settlements to resolve ten cases last year, and 15 similar ones are pending. Former managers have set up an organization called S.A.P.S. (Sambo's Association for Partnership Survival...
...lords." All this was imbued with a sympathy for the Indians shared by few of his countrymen, full as they were of their vision of manifest destiny. As an account of Indian life, his notebooks deserve comparison to Francis Parkman's more conscientious but less lively Oregon Trail...
...like other drug-producing countries, is not about to kill off its lucrative marijuana crops until the U.S. sprays its own fields. The DEA is quietly planning a paraquat program that would involve Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Conspicuous by their absence on this list are California, Oregon and Hawaii, the top marijuana producers. The DEA fears political fallout in the two Western states and rules out the islands because of logistical problems. If the DEA gets its way, the first state to be sprayed will be Florida. Although not a leading marijuana grower, Florida may be receptive...
...eleven states in the West and the South. Those losing seats are New York (five), Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania (two each), and Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey and South Dakota (one each). Gaining seats are Florida (four), Texas (three), California (two), and Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah and Washington (one each...