Word: ores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effort to continue to provide such amenities as parks and playgrounds while struggling to maintain basic services like police and fire protection, communities from Baltimore to Oregon City, Ore., are now publishing wish lists of services and items they want but cannot afford. These municipal beggars are soliciting tax-deductible gifts, either in cash or in goods or services, from private-sector donors. In many cities, the lists are dominated by pleas for park and sports equipment. Others want typewriters and computers for city offices, film projectors and pianos for community centers...
That possibility is always a worry. "I don't like to see a child have to get up and testify," says Brenda Watson, a founder of the West Linn, Ore., firm that makes the anatomically correct dolls. "But what happened to him or her was worse. The only way to protect the children is to go through the judicial system." -By Bennett H. Beach. Reported by Magda Krance/Chicago and Laura Meyers/Los Angeles
...Erase the race that claim the place and say we dig for ore." She makes no overt 'statement,' but the primitive-sounding instruments and background follow a sparse, dirge-like rhythm, mourning the destruction of a people. At the same time, the dirge represents the grinding advance of heavy machinery. The background sounds of animals and chanting crowds of people give way to the mechanical advance, leaving only a lone, hopeless voice to utter a regret in an ancient tongue...
Some 700 miles north, in Hillsboro, Ore., detectives were keeping "open minds" in their investigation into the death of Patricia Bennett, 31. A campus security officer at Portland Community College, Bennett died last week after swallowing one or more Anacin-3 capsules laced with cyanide. Her death was the first fatal poisoning linked to pain relievers since seven people in the Chicago area died between Sept. 29 and Oct. 1. Meanwhile, American Home Products is voluntarily withdrawing all Anacin-3 capsules not in tamper-resistant containers...
Edwin W. Butler Waldport, Ore...