Word: ores
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will not long be dependent on the kindness of strangers. Accompanied by her sister-in-law, last week Nancy Myatt of Dickson, Tenn., flew to Portland, Ore., to be reunited with the man she recognized from news photographs as her long-lost father John Kingery. Myatt found Kingery at the Laurelhurst Care Center, a nursing home from which he had been removed in early March by her half sister Sue Gifford. Myatt explained that she lost touch with her father, a former autoworker, after he remarried in 1964 and just "slipped away from us." After a time, Myatt assumed...
Melhorn says he was employed by IBM for 27years, and served as chief financial officer ofthe United Methodist Church in Portland, Ore.,before becoming Officer for Administration andDevelopment at Memorial Church...
...publicity clearly helped reduce the damage to U.S. computers. It certainly didn't hurt the group with the most to gain: the folks who make their living providing protection against virus attacks. Central Point Software in Beaverton, Ore., for example, reported that sales of its $129 antiviral program jumped 700% in one month. Central Point gave away thousands of copies of another, smaller program designed to destroy Michelangelo and a second virus set to strike this week, on Friday the 13th. But included in that freebie was a clever marketing tool for the company's full-powered program: a list...
Before the roaring Columbia River began to be tamed by dams 59 years ago, it teemed with 16 million wild salmon a year as it cut a 1,930-km (1,200-mile) swath from its headwaters in British Columbia to its mouth at Astoria, Ore. Today its streams and tributaries are inhabited by only 2.5 million salmon a year, nearly 75% of which are spawned in domestic hatcheries. Logging and grazing on public lands have eroded soils and buried spawning grounds. Delicate habitats have been dried up by the pumping of hundreds of millions of acre-feet of water...
Funny Wordplay: Celery cuts. Roll models. Oil of Ole. Either ore. Jocular straps. Gambling through the woods. Getting chaste around a convent. Serving alcohol to miners. Javerbaum and Rosetti dig this kind of joke. Don't like puns? Stay home...