Word: ores
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Many towns contract out some of their most vital services. Since 1979 a company called Valley Fire has offered fire protection to part of Grants Pass, Ore. (pop. 15,080), which is located on both sides of the Rogue River. The city fire department is on the north side of the river, where most of the residents live. Valley Fire built a fire station on the south side, and supplies the equipment and a company of 46 fire fighters and a reserve force of 32. At least two fire fighters are on duty at all times...
...Anne Kelly Senior Guard Garden City, N.Y. Nancy Cibotti Sophomore Center Walpole, Mass. Anna Collins Senior Forward Livonia, Mi. Sarah Duncan Freshman Forward Chicago, III. Patricia Brown Junior Forward Norwood, Mass. Nancy Colbert Freshman Guard Lawrence, Mass. Nicole Anderson Freshman Forward White Plains, N.Y. Andrea Eror Freshman Guard Banks, Ore. Beth Chandler Sophomore Forward Branford, Conn...
...McCall is not like most of his colleagues in the junior class at Princeton University. He may have already been to his 25th class reunion, even though he has not yet graduated. And for the past 14 years, he has been the president of his family business in Portland, Ore...
...holy man, it was a world of trouble. There, in a third-floor medical cell of the Mecklenburg County jail in Charlotte, N.C., sat Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh last week, facing 35 counts of conspiring to violate immigration laws. Back home in Rajneeshpuram, Ore., where he ran a 1,300-member commune that espouses free love and the good life, the Bhagwan (Revered One) was accustomed to more deferential treatment, not to mention a more elegant life- style that offered, among other amenities, no fewer than 90 Rolls-Royces...
Perhaps no one, however, seems to have employed bacterial conversion better than Microbiologist James Whitlock of the Homestake Mining Co. He found a solution to the problems caused when the company dumped water laced with cyanide, which is used to leach gold out of ore, into South Dakota's Whitewood Creek. Whitlock examined waste-water samples until he found bacteria, grew them in the lab, then exposed them to higher and higher levels of cyanide and saved the survivors. He then installed these superbugs in a brand new $10 million water-treatment plant, putting billions of them on each...