Word: ores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Burns, Ore...
...months, 50% of the managers had quit. And then the 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...
Pendleton, Ore...
Portland, Ore...
...Generally, mayors and other city leaders fear that state legislatures will slash programs benefiting city dwellers more deeply than those popular with rural and suburban residents. "Big-city school programs are chewed up by Reagan's block-grant concept," says Forrest Rieke, chairman of the Portland, Ore., school board. "It pits us against the downstate interests, and their folks in the legislature definitely have us outnumbered...