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Elected mayor 30 years ago, Bud Clark changed the face of Portland
2014-03-31 22:16:45| PortlandOnline
Andy Giegerich in the Portland Business Journal PDF Document, 161kbCategory: In the News
just Five Years Ago: Constellation Brands sells 'value' spirits portfolio
2014-02-04 14:56:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
It's been five years since Constellation Brands offloaded a large chunk of its spirits interests by selling its "value" portfolio to Sazerac Company for US$334m.
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Man Attacks Dealership Because Car Bought 10 Years Ago Was "No Good"
2014-02-02 01:45:10| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
A man attacked a used car dealership in England with an axe and a knife this week, after it sold him a car that he no longer found satisfactory, ten years ago.
SOS 54 years ago warned about vanishing glaciers
2013-12-25 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: At a time when glaciers are melting at an alarming pace, an SOS buried in a bottle 54 years ago in the Canadian Arctic, and unearthed now, sent a distress signal about the world's rapidly disappearing glaciers. An American geologist Paul Walker, concerned about the melting of ice, buried a message in a bottle during his exploration of Ward Hunt Island in Nunavut, Canada, in 1959. He measured the distance - about 1.2 metres - from a glacier to where he buried the message in a bottle, requesting...
Assassination 25 years ago catalyzed movement to protect the Amazon
2013-12-23 00:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Twenty-five years ago today, Chico Mendes, an Amazon rubber tapper, was shot and killed in front of his family at his home in Acre, Brazil at the age of 44. His assassination was the catalyst that sparked a much broader movement to protect the Amazon against rampant deforestation. The movement empowered a new generation of forest people and activists and would eventually culminate in millions of hectares of Amazon rainforest being set aside in reserves. But while the deforestation rate has...
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