Word: ores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rose A. Thompson Albany, Ore...
Though they have covered many odd, speculative spots in the universe, most of Ursula Le Guin's 19 books were conceived and written in one place: an 80-year-old four-story frame house perched on the west bank of the Willamette River in Portland, Ore. The rooms are large, the furniture casual, obviously lived-and lounged-in by the three Le Guin children, who grew up there: Elisabeth, 22, Caroline, 20, and Theodore, 15. An occasional antique betrays an interest in the past; Charles Le Guin, Ursula's husband of 26 years, teaches history at Portland State...
...EUGENE, Ore.--William Boyd, president of the University of Oregon, has asked the state attorney general's office for help in investigating a credit scandal in the university's athletic department...
Michael Gold Eugene, Ore...
...course, companies can do more to develop secondary and tertiary sources, many of which will become both economically feasible and absolutely necessary as conventional minerals become costlier in the 1980s. For example, the U.S. imports 93% of its bauxite, the major aluminum ore, but the Bureau of Mines is experimenting with a process to extract alumina from clays found in Georgia and Arkansas. More experiments, more domestic mining and some compromises on the environmental front would help avoid repetition of the oil saga of the 1960s and 1970s, when the U.S. became needlessly overdependent on dubious foreign suppliers...