Word: portlanders
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
CLINTON AND AL GORE ARE STILL ROCKERS AT HEART. THE DAY before the FOREST CONFERENCE in Portland, Oregon, Clinton and Gore both hoped to attend an environmental rock concert featuring Neil Young, Kenny Loggins and Carole King. But political instincts won out: Bill and Al decided that attending the concert risked incurring the wrath of loggers...
...passage of his budget package; he deleted provisions raising the minimal rates farmers and miners pay to use federal lands. Environmentalists see the discounts as a guarantee of despoilment and Clinton's act as political cowardice. They were still nervous days later when he chaired a Portland, Oregon, "forest conference" on logging and the spotted owl, topics viewed by some as mutually exclusive. At the impassioned gathering, which featured concerned conservationists and unemployed lumberjacks, Administration aides chatted of legislation that would protect the owl under the Endangered Species Act but also allow some logging to resume. That might not delight...
...shows often founder by experimenting too boldly (see 20/20 and PrimeTime Live). Perhaps with that in mind, the first episode of ABC's new magazine show emphasized old-fashioned, straight-ahead journalism. Most of the program was devoted to host Forrest Sawyer's report on a Portland, Oregon, man convicted of attempted murder for sleeping with his next-door neighbor when he knew he had AIDS. It was engrossing in the familiar 60 Minutes manner: dramatic storytelling, a clear-cut bad guy and a gunslinging reporter. Unfortunately, Sawyer's cool intelligence often comes across as smugness, and it remains...
...Chelsea Clinton, seems to be well on the way to immortality. Thanks to a runaway merchandising blitz of Socks memorabilia, the white-footed feline's likeness is now found on books, stuffed animals, buttons, earrings, T shirts and note cards in stores and trade shows around the U.S. In Portland, Oregon, Pam Gibson of the Cat's Meow store, left, calls Socksmania "a phenomenon." % The hottest items, she says, are pictures of Socks at the White House and MOVE OVER MILLIE T shirts. Bloomingdale's, the upscale New York City department store, is selling a gold-tone-and-enamel Socks...
Reed College students in Portland, Oregon traditionally prefer to celebrate the beginning of spring reading period with "Renn Fayre...