Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Portland 105, Cleveland...
...sites with populations that are less than 10 percent Black-Boston, Denver, Phoenix, Portland, San Antonio, San Diego, Seattle and Utah--63.6 percent of the players were Black. In cities that are more than 20 percent Black, 87.3 percent of the players were Black. The Celtics employ six Black and five white players
...Washington has 11.1%. By the middle of last month, 19,000 of the region's 102,000 sawmill employees had been laid off, while another 41,000 were working curtailed shifts. "It's like Chinese water torture," says John Hampton, chairman of Hampton Affiliates, a Portland-based logging company. "There's been no relief." Two weeks ago, the U.S. Postal Service in Portland announced that it would have between 800 and 1,000 new job openings over the next three years; 18,642 applications flooded...
...urban center. Nationwide they number in the hundreds of thousands, and their ranks have been increasing along with rising unemployment, escalating housing costs and the spreading practice of discharging less seriously afflicted mental patients. Hayes has received inquiries from concerned people in 25 cities, including Chicago, Columbus and Portland, Me. Can he offer any help? they ask. He has decided he must go on trying. A founder of what he hopes to transform into a national coalition for the homeless, he will leave his $40,000-plus job on Wall Street in the next few weeks to work full time...
...Portland Trailblazers 123, Boston Celtics...