Word: portland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from out of state. For the Cutlips are part of a "northward-ho!" movement of new settlers, mainly from California, who have been streaming by the tens of thousands toward the inviting frontier of the Pacific Northwest. The influx into dynamic areas like Seattle and, to a lesser extent, Portland, Ore., is urbanizing a once rural hinterland and intensifying the Northwest's already bitter debate over local growth...
There's trouble brewing for the Los Angeles Lakers, and it comes in the form of Phoenix and Portland. The Lakers have the same dominating players, including James Worthy, Magic Johnson and Byron Scott, but without Kareem, the "Magic" may have gone East to Orlando...
...Portland, Kevin Duckworth and Clyde Drexler are All-Stars, and the addition of New Jersey's Williams gives the Trail Blazers an enthusiastic rebounder who could propel them towards the title...
...strike at Boeing by more than 57,000 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers brought new-plane production to a virtual halt at the company's main manufacturing plants in the Seattle area, where 43,000 of the machinists work, and at other factories in Portland, Ore., and Wichita...
...fugitive in chilling detail. A paper trail of credit-card slips places Stevens in proximity to 17 of the Green River crime scenes. In addition to the 48 Green River murders, the affidavit suggests, Stevens may also be responsible for at least a dozen other killings in Seattle, Portland and Tacoma. Informants alleged that he carried photographs of mutilated women and frequented prostitutes. One source quoted him as saying that he worked with Seattle vice detectives and in the line of duty "often was involved in the torture of prostitutes." Stevens also reportedly said he would like to have...