Word: ores
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...went at the Tournament of the Americas in Portland, Ore., last month, where the Argentines and everyone else came to pose for pictures with Michael, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and their merry band of N.B.A. All-Star troubadours. In between, they played a little basketball. Very little. Take Cuba: with 3 1/ 2 min. remaining in the game, the team was behind by 70 points, and only the final horn saved it from losing by 100 or more. Panama dropped a cliff- hanger by a mere...
...politically correct are endlessly inventive. A high school in Portland, Ore., described a song as a "spiritual of color...
...white. His brother and sister are Black. His other brother is Iranian. And in 1980--about the same time Mount St. Helens erupted, Thomas says with a grin--Kerby ran away with a gay lover. Today, Kerby and Linda are best friends, living a few blocks apart in Portland, Ore. Every now and then, they tell their story on a TV talk show...
Highways in rotten condition are scattered across the nation. I-35 south of Kansas City, Kans., is known as a deathtrap for shock absorbers, while the pockmarked I-5 south of Portland, Ore., and I-20 in Louisiana are renowned for testing drivers' nerves and fannies...
...school children to foreign languages in a new way. With a small amount of federal funding, the county instituted "partial-immersion" language programs in eight schools in Japanese, Spanish and French. Similar experiments in partial immersion can be spotted around the country in such cities as Eugene and Portland, Ore., and Anchorage. The idea is that children's minds are stretched and their skills enhanced when they are introduced to any foreign language. By being taught math and science in Japanese, the students unconsciously acquire the language. "Learning another language opens new pathways of connections in the brain, basically connecting...