Word: ores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Caughey Portland, Ore...
Last week Lyons' voice was suddenly silent. He had turned in his last columns to the National Catholic Register and Twin Circle (combined weekly circulation: 162,000), left his Manhattan office and headed west. Days later, he walked into the Portland, Ore., headquarters of his Jesuit superior, the Very Rev. Kenneth Galbraith, and stunned him by asking for a leave of absence, with the intention of ultimately seeking release from his priestly vows. After all the dropouts in recent years, "I thought I was through with being surprised," says Galbraith, "but I was surprised...
Union Threat. Meanwhile Bailar is working to cut the Postal Service's costs and improve efficiency. In Portland, Ore., a program to reduce wasted costs and effort by ensuring that all carriers handle an equal amount of mail has been tried. The powerful 245,000-member National Association of Letter Carriers is likely to fight Bailar's proposal on the ground that it is an illicit speedup. Bailar also plans to hold down new hiring by exercising more vigorously the Postal Service's right to move workers from one job to another...
...sized and small cities) clearly reinforce the study's overall conclusion that those nice, comfortable Southern cities fare poorly in competition with their frenetic counterparts in the West, the North Central States and the Northeast. Indeed, only Birmingham, Ala., was rated "substandard" in all categories, while only Portland, Ore., came off with "outstanding" honors on all counts...
...Portland, Ore.* 2. Sacramento, Calif. 3. Seattle* 4. San Jose, Calif 5.Minneapolis* 6. Rochester 7. Hartford, Conn. 8. Denver 9. San Francisco* 10. San Diego 11. Grand Rapids 12. Milwaukee 13. Salt Lake City...