Word: ores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gregory A. Toftdahl Junction City, Ore...
...Historic Places can write off their contributions in only five years. Declared Pritchard: "We're saying let us work with you and you do it." Though 130 theaters are listed on the National Register, as yet only two-the Strand in Shreveport, La., and the Paris in Portland, Ore.-have benefited from the tax incentive...
Japan must import 99.7% of its oil, as well as almost all the coal, iron ore and other raw materials needed to keep its production lines humming. To soften the blow of rising commodities prices, the triumvirate of banking, business and government has pursued a subtly effective policy of slowing the growth of resource-intensive industries such as steel and petrochemicals, and channeling more of the nation's capital into "knowledge-intensive" industries such as microelectronics and computers. That is one reason why, throughout most of the energy-dazed 1970s, Japan has held inflation relatively low and employment high...
...Kent Lloyd Gladstone, Ore...
...Mining Co.'s taconite plant, whose construction in 1952 had created the town. About 80% of the local labor force is employed at the $350 million facility, which turns trainloads of the flinty rock mined in the Mesabi Range into about 15% of the nation's iron ore supply. But Reserve also dumped 67,000 tons of tailings a day into the world's largest freshwater lake, thereby polluting it with tiny fibers similar to asbestos, a carcinogen. Recalls Jon Luoma, head of public relations for the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency: "If the sun was right...