Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plans to build another yard at Portland, about 40 miles down the Maine coast. With its frigate project 99 weeks ahead of schedule and $44 million under budget, the Iron Works is eyeing the Navy's new destroyer program. That could be its biggest contract ever. Congoleum, the proud parent company, has now moved its headquarters from Milwaukee to nearby Portsmouth, N.H. Construction of its new building, though, is slightly over budge and three months behind schedule. Maybe Congoleum should have had the Bath Iron Works build it. -By John S. DeMott Reported by Barry Hillenbrand/Bath
...months, 50% of the managers had quit. And then the lawsuits began. Former managers claimed that the Fraction of the Action was actually a pyramid scheme that indirectly paid off top corporate officials with money put in by the restaurant managers. Charles P. Cattin, a former manager in Portland, Ore., sued Sambo's, charging fraud. Last month an Oregon court awarded him $925,000 in damages. The company paid settlements to resolve ten cases last year, and 15 similar ones are pending. Former managers have set up an organization called S.A.P.S. (Sambo's Association for Partnership Survival...
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...programs at all. Generally, mayors and other city leaders fear that state legislatures will slash programs benefiting city dwellers more deeply than those popular with rural and suburban residents. "Big-city school programs are chewed up by Reagan's block-grant concept," says Forrest Rieke, chairman of the Portland, Ore., school board. "It pits us against the downstate interests, and their folks in the legislature definitely have us outnumbered...
Robert Vreeland, 35, a biologist from Portland, remembered looking up to see some of his partners beginning to slip. Said he: "I yelled for them to self-arrest, to dig in with their axes, but they didn't have time. I braced myself. I could see I was going to be hit. I got my ax in a couple of times, but it came out. It was like a ball of people falling through the air. There wasn't anything I could do." Vreeland and eleven companions survived. Four were killed outright; a fifth died a few hours...