Hints and tips:
...All of those on board landed back safely at Portland, Oregon....
...For cocktails, it’s not cheap but the Artesian bar at The Langham hotel on Portland Place is lovely. It’s an extraordinary setting, with delicious drinks, and it’s really going to be up there....
...That’s when door plugs fly off of 737s high above Portland....
...One afternoon a few weeks before Christmas, Jim Riswold rolled his wheelchair across the threshold of a downtown gallery in Portland, Oregon, where his exhibition Two Wars in One was opening....
...Have you noticed when people are interviewed on TV these days, they often falter, choke and say: “Sorry. I’m getting emotional”?...
...The fallout from the report’s findings has been swift and is escalating: the Portland Thorns club fired two senior executives, and team owner Merritt Paulson (son of former US Treasury Secretary Hank) said...
...But Sushi Atelier on Great Portland Street deserves to be popular and if anything, that review undersells it. Get the omakase sushi lunch set. Save the fatty tuna for last....
...If the latter, you’re probably one of the thousands who have made the TV personality Richard Osman a rich man with his best-selling Thursday Murder Club sequence....
...The Portland Trailblazers franchise is expected to be sold as part of the settlement of late owner Paul Allen’s estate, and expanding the league from 30 to 32 teams is in the offing down the road....
...Roughly a year earlier, I walked into a recruiting office for the United States Peace Corps in Portland, Oregon....
...Another plan in Portland was for people to reach cooling centres by light rail, but the light rail system buckled under the heat. Adaptations can’t prevent the economic hit....
...And, and she tried everything to get to America because my father had already made it to Portland, Oregon, as a student and wanted to get her and his brother out and he couldn’t get in every day....
...Despite signs that the UK recovery may be losing momentum, businesses are committing to more office and shop space, according to Great Portland, one of London’s leading developers....
...Perhaps, like TV, literature and life stories, corporate culture has been captured by today’s obsession with everything being “a journey”....
...Mr Paulson also owns the Portland MLS team, the Timbers, but he said his success with the Thorns has earned him more renown....
...When the TV show Portlandia came out a few years ago, one of the episodes was about brunch, where there were ridiculous queues everywhere....
...Last weekend, as tens of thousands marched through the city centre, Russian state TV news instead ran features on protests in Portland in the US....
...And he has doubled down on his “law and order” message by sending federal troops into Portland, Oregon, and threatening to do the same in other cities....
...That was not the Murdochs’ only investment: their TV network Star India, since sold to Disney, paid $2.6bn in 2017 for the rights to show the IPL for five years....
...In 2020 it benefited from the ongoing 5G upgrade and locked down consumers buying TVs and other electronics....
...“If it were not for Jill Stein, Trump might still be trying to make a reality TV comeback,” I write. “A Gabbard candidacy could do the same for him in 2020.”...
...The legacy cable TV business is in decline yet still provides 95 per cent of operating cash flow and, while some growth is coming from ultrafast broadband, the rollout requires substantial capital expenditure...
...Mr Zimnisky expects prices for lab-grown stones to fall, in line with other developing technologies such as mobile phones and flatscreen TVs....
...By 2011, when the TV sketch-comedy Portlandia began satirising the city, it had been established as the US centre of alternative cool....
.../ From David Beffert, Portland, OR, US...
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