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...Products frozen-food conglomerate, whose family is worth an estimated $450 million. Winston Cox, chief executive of the Showtime cable television network, is a principal owner of the San Jose Giants. The bush leagues have also attracted big-name investors. Among them: Singer Pia Zadora, an owner of the Portland Beavers of Oregon; Actor Mark Harmon, who has an interest in California's San Bernardino Spirit; and George Brett, the Kansas City Royals player, who is part owner of the Spokane Indians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bonanza In The Bushes | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

Even as his defeats were sealed by the voters, Jackson was looking ahead to next week's primary in Oregon as well as the final showdown June 7 in California. Campaigning in Portland, he said, "We know the people of Oregon are an independent-thinking people. We expect a tremendous response...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Duke Takes 2 States | 5/11/1988 | See Source »

...shipped a mere 4,006 autos in the other direction. That whopping imbalance showed a small sign of easing last week when Honda became the first Japanese automaker to send some of its U.S.-made autos back home for sale. The carmaker marked the occasion on a dock in Portland, Ore., where Republican Senator Bob Packwood and Honda's U.S. chief, Tetsuo Chino, drove the first auto in a load of 540 gray and white Accord coupes into the hold of the freighter Green Bay. Also put on board were 100 U.S.-made Honda motorcycles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Driving Against The Traffic | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...returning to work -- on their own terms. Robert Pamplin, 76, former head of the Georgia-Pacific Corp., prudently began plotting his corporate afterlife ten years before he reached his company's mandatory retirement age. In 1976, on his 65th birthday, he bought a small sand-and- gravel company in Portland, Ore. Ten years and two other acquisitions later, he oversees a small empire with revenues of $420 million. Pamplin too saw his postretirement course as a sort of duty. "God has given us certain talents," he says. "And he gave them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Grays on The Go | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

Dierdre's only grandchild Paul earns $16,000 a year working at a lumberyard in Portland, Ore. His wife Karen brings in an additional $6,000 as a part-time secretary. Since they cannot afford a house, they rent a two-bedroom apartment for $500 a month, where they raise their three-year-old daughter. They too have a ritual. Every two weeks, when they deposit their paychecks, they agonize over the 7% deduction for Social Security tax and wonder if they will ever see that money again -- unless, of course, they visit Grandma. "This whole system just beats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Grays on The Go | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

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