Word: ores
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Their triumph came in 1986, with the passage of sanctions. The law banned new U.S. investments in South Africa, prohibited imports of ore and farm products and revoked the landing privileges of South Africa Airways. The sanctions must remain in effect until South Africa releases all political prisoners, repeals the state of emergency in all provinces, legalizes all democratic political parties, establishes a timetable for eliminating apartheid and begins talks with black leaders...
...receptor will be marketed by AT&E, a San Francisco-based telecommunications firm, starting next month in Portland, Ore., and in 16 other U.S. cities by the end of 1991. Motorola and Timex plan to market a similar watch later this summer. The pager watches, however, will not have the voice capabilities of Tracy's timepiece anytime soon. Says Charles Skibo, president of AT&E: "That would run a battery down real fast...
Local governments in Berkeley, Portland, Ore., and Glen Cove, N.Y., have banned the material, forcing McDonald's to switch to paper packaging. About a dozen other cities have enacted similar restrictions, and hundreds more towns have considered such laws...
...industry contends that Kerr's notoriety has set back attempts to find a compromise solution to the logging controversy. "He's the most polarizing force out there," fumes Tom Hirons, owner of Mad Creek Logging in Gates, Ore. "He practices mental terrorism." Hirons and fellow loggers refuse even to sit down at the same table with Kerr...
...Portland, Ore., the organizing committee of Earth Day is cosponsoring local festivities with "primary resource extractors" such as timber and mining companies. In return for the companies' sponsorship, the committee has agreed to soft-pedal the environmental issue most important to the Pacific Northwest--resource extraction. In a final irony, Portland's Earth Day Fair will be held at the headquarters of PG&E, the owner of the nearby Trojan Nuclear Power Plant...