Word: ores
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Jesus noted, the last shall be first. After only a year on the market, a slim inspirational text called The Prayer of Jabez, written by an evangelist based in Atlanta, Bruce Wilkinson, and published by a tiny firm in Sisters, Ore., has sold a Grisham-like 3.5 million copies and advanced this week to No. 1 on the New York Times Advice, How-to & Miscellaneous best-sellers list--even though the Times does not count books sold in religious bookstores. Says Lynn Garrett, religion editor at Publishers Weekly: "It's a raging success, and I think it's going...
...companies are generally more willing to invest in the hardware and software that are needed to make long-distance supervision work. "Surprisingly, one of the biggest problems is that some people will not fork over the cash for the technology," says Mareen Duncan Fisher, a consultant based in Portland, Ore., and co-author of The Distance Manager...
...municipal governments are working to duplicate such successes. In 1993, Portland, Ore., became the first U.S. city to implement its own CO2-reduction plan, joining a global partnership of municipal governments that eventually included Denver; Minneapolis, Minn.; Copenhagen; and Helsinki. The goal was to slash CO2 emissions 20% below 1990 levels by 2010. Portland's strategy involved a six-point program that included synchronizing traffic lights, planting 75,000 acres of trees (which absorb carbon dioxide) and buying low-CO2 vehicles for the city's fleet...
...courts are not doing very much to clarify the issue. Two years ago, a federal court in Portland, Ore., ruled the web site was not protected by the First Amendment, and ordered the site's organizers to pay $109 million in damages to Planned Parenthood and the four doctors who had sued the site for inciting violence. The site was taken down. Wednesday, the Federal Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned that ruling...
...Earnhardt to take such excessive risks--a desire to commit suicide in a publicly acceptable way?" asked a reader in Minneapolis. "Those voyeurs of violence paid their money fully expecting this kind of mayhem, and then shed crocodile tears when it happened," wrote a nonfan of NASCAR from Salem, Ore. "Shame on all of them." "If any other sport had a comparable death rate, there would be calls for legislation to ban the slaughter," declared an Oklahoman, while an Ohio environmentalist found even more reasons to condemn motor sport: "NASCAR is truly the winningest sport of all--it's tops...