Word: ores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...refuse a man permission to try on its merchandise on the premises. Questions: Can anyone in the real world take such an issue seriously? Should the drive against sexist discrimination lead to the negation of all social differentiations between the sexes? No was the answer hinted at in Portland, Ore., by the civil rights division of the state labor department; the division informed a worried bar owner that, well, yes, he was within his rights in refusing to allow his transvestite patrons the privilege of using the ladies' room...
...twelve murals they have painted are vivid, unabashed celebrations of rural Wisconsin life. On Ken Howell's dairy barn near Ashland, an ore boat steams across the clapboard siding, while an orange and crimson sun descends in a peacock blue sky. At Oak Creek, a 16-ft. cultivator depicted on the John and Arthur Mahr barn stands amid a luminous crazy quilt of rolling hillsides. Past poster-bright stands of timber and grazing deer, a lumber train with trim red wheels chugs across the Lewis Furchtenicht barn in Spooner. The facade of Patrick Hennessey's barn in Dodgeville...
First, are Americans willing to sacrifice? "Carter said it best when he said we'll never be able to live the same again," says Robert Chess, a machine repairman of Clackamas, Ore. "I'm going to have to change my life-style." Paula Johnson, a suburban Atlanta housewife, has already moved her mother to a nursing home closer to her house, shifted to a smaller car and begun insulating her home. "I'm quite willing to cut down my heat," says Philadelphia Personnel Manager June Rosato. "Shivering a little is the least I can do for my country...
...there are many Americans who either cannot or will not alter their car-driving habits, suggesting that the cost of gasoline will not, alone, much reduce consumption. "My driving is out of necessity," says Diana Brown, a Portland, Ore., bookkeeper and secretary. "My reasons aren't going to change just because it costs me a nickel a gallon more to get there...
...Gopalakrishna Redmond, Ore...