Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...average sank 21 points. By Tuesday night, after another large drop, the average was down to 63], its lowest since 1962. Brokers and investors, who had watched stock values drop $280 billion in the long bear market, expressed their total gloom in bitter jokes. Sample from a broker in Portland, Ore.: "I sleep like a baby. I wake up every hour...
...NATHAN SHLIM Portland...
Later decisions by the courts will probably refine that standard. Nonetheless, Moore's opinion may well serve as a precedent for stopping other controversial public works projects that involve dikes-for example, an airport extension into the Columbia River at Portland, Ore. Even more important, says Lawyer Sive, "the public interest in environmental resources is now a legally protected interest...
...invite businessmen to lunch tell them that the free meal is all the help that their bank can give in 1970. One banker cheerily explains the meaning of the recent prime-rate cut: the money that business once could not borrow at 8½ is now unavailable at 8%. Portland brokers have started a betting pool on which firm will go bankrupt first-and when...
...already undergoing FBI checks. One of them, Harry Andrew Blackmun, 61, an appeals-court judge from Rochester, Minn., and a longtime friend of Chief Justice Burger, met with Mitchell last week. Blackmun was considered the likeliest choice. Also being checked is Federal District Judge Edward T. Gignoux, 53, of Portland, Me. Both are Harvard Law School graduates. Appointed to the federal bench by President Eisenhower, they are considered strict constructionists...