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With just about everybody competing for factories that bring jobs, corporations ordinarily shop around for the best financial incentives before deciding where to locate. But Hyster Co., a forklifl manufacturer based in Portland, Ore., has carried this game a step further and used it for decisions about existing plants. The result: a high-stakes game of musical chairs in which the stingiest locality loses its Hyster plant when the music stops...
...Portland 109, Chicago...
...grand sweep into Los Angeles followed similarly ballyhooed arrivals into Portland, Ore., Denver, Minneapolis and five other regional markets. By April, USA Today will have entered five additional metropolitan areas, including Chicago, Miami and New York. Though Gannett officials are closely guarding the circulation results in individual markets, they claim to have a total of more than 400,000 street-sold copies a day. That would make the paper, whose first issue appeared in Washington on Sept. 15, at least the nation's 18th largest...
...Coming through" has become a trademark of late for Carroll. The Portland, Me., native now leads the squad with 15 points and nine goals...
DIED. Tom McCall, 69, environment-minded Governor of Oregon from 1967 to 1975; of cancer; in Portland. A progressive Republican whose grandfather was a two-term Governor of Massachusetts, McCall pushed through tough laws regulating land use and pollution. Both patrician and folksy, the former journalist could be blunt: in 1971, he shooed prospective residents away from the state with the exhortation: "Visit-but for heaven's sake, don't stay...