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In the News (Wed 16 May 12)

  
  Book Notes: City-Building in America by Anthony M. Orum
Orum examines Milwaukee, Wisconsin as an example of an industrial city that grew in the 19th century and declined in the 20th, losing manufacturing jobs and population.
Orum traces the decline of industrial Milwaukee (1950-1990) as a time in which the loss of manufacturing jobs and population accelerated and government policies in transportation and housing further destroyed central Milwaukee in a systematic and very efficient fashion (see also Norquist 1998).
Orum's examination of Cleveland shows a similar pattern as Milwaukee: the departure of industry and suburban growth at expense of the inner city (p.
www.december.com /places/people/orum1995.html   (795 words)

  
 ANLA Press Releases - Orum Elected 2004-2005 ANLA President
Washington, D.C. — Peter Orum, owner of Midwest Groundcovers (IL), was recently elected as the 2004-2005 president of the American Nursery & Landscape Association (ANLA) during an ANLA Senate meeting held at the Annual Convention & Learning Retreat in Hawaii.
Based in St. Charles and founded in 1969 by Orum and wife, Irma, Midwest Groundcovers is the largest ground cover producer in Illinois, with 400 acres in IL and 300 in Michigan, and an annual production of about 20 million plants.
Orum’s wife Irma and daughter Christa, a landscape architect, are both heavily involved in the company.
www.anla.org /applications/PressReleases/releases/0166.htm   (290 words)

  
 ANLA Press Releases - Orum Elected ANLA Region III Director
Peter Orum, owner of Midwest Groundcovers, St. Charles, Illinois, was elected Region III director of the American Nursery & Landscape Association (ANLA).
Orum's involvement in the nursery business began early, at his father's nursery in Northern Denmark.
Orum's wife Irma and landscape architect daughter Christa are heavily involved in company.
www.anla.org /applications/PressReleases/releases/0012.htm   (219 words)

  
 Orum Coat of Arms
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www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.c/qx/orum-coat-arms.htm   (975 words)

  
 Obituary for Jimmie Samuel Orum of Comanche Oklahoma   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Jimmie Samuel Orum, 78, of Comanche, died April 30, 2001 at his residence.
Orum was born December 9, 1922, in Lebanon, OK. He was a WWII veteran and participated in the Normandy Invasion and received the EAME Theater Ribbon and Good Conduct Medal.
Pallbearers were Jerrell Bowen, Chad Massie, Matt Orum, Jason Orum, Herb Sigler, and James Armsworthy.
www.dudleyfuneralhomes.com /jimmieorum.html   (117 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Çorum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
As with cities, there is no standard universal definition of a town: the criterion in use in any country is likely to arise...
town in the Corum (Turkish spelling Çorum; pronunciation: CHO-room) is a province of Turkey.
The capital of the province bears the same name, Çorum.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/%c3%87orum   (615 words)

  
 Daily News Record: Lands' End names Orum V-P, CFO. (Stephen Orum appointed vice president, chief financial officer of ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
(Stephen Orum appointed vice president, chief financial officer of catalog retailer)
DODGEVILLE, Wis. -- Stephen A. 'Chip' Orum has been named vice-president and chief financial officer of Land's End, Inc.
Orum will report to company president and chief executive officer Richard C. 208 of 422 Characters
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:10915377&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (174 words)

  
 The Austin Chronicle Books: Anthony Orum on Austin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Written when Orum taught at the University of Texas and first published in 1987, it was used by Robert Caro in his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Lyndon Johnson, The Master of the Senate.
Another factor was the business and political leaders from the 1930s onward who refused heavy industry to keep Austin from looking like Northern cities with their tenements and unsightly factories.
"Richard's a regional economist," Orum says, "and somehow thinks that you can go in and identify these features of highly creative places [like Austin], and once you've got them clustered together, says, this is the package you can use." He says he admires Florida's book even though it doesn't tell the whole story.
www.bestofaustin.com /issues/dispatch/2003-05-23/books_feature.html   (737 words)

  
 Belgium - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
They were (mostly) Celtic tribes, living in northern Gaul and overcome by Julius Caesar in 54 BC, as described in his chronicle De Bello Gallico.
In this same work Julius Caesar referred to the Belgae as "...the bravest of all Gauls" (orum omnium fortissimi sunt belgae).
After the Roman Empire collapsed (5th century), Germanic tribes invaded the Roman province of "Gallia".
open-encyclopedia.com /Belgium   (2990 words)

  
 ANLA's new president addresses UFW on AgJOBS legislation - Landscape Management
Washington, D.C. — In July, at the American Nursery & Landscape Association's (ANLA) annual convention, the association welcomed its 2004/2005 president, Peter Orum, owner of Midwest Groundcovers in St. Charles, IL.
On August 29, Orum made history by becoming the first ANLA president to be invited to address the annual convention of the United Farm Workers.
Orum spoke about the challenge the two organizations face in lobbying for the enactment of farm labor reform legislation known as AgJOBS (S. Orum and UFW president Arturo Rodriguez called for President Bush to seize the opportunity at hand, by urging the Senate to pass AgJOBS immediately upon returning to Washington in September.
www.landscapemanagement.net /landscape/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=118903   (367 words)

  
 Testimony of Paul Orum
I am Paul Orum, director of the Working Group on Community Right-to-Know.
Since 1989 I have worked with many non-governmental organizations in all 50 states that are concerned with efforts to reduce chemical hazards and toxic pollution.
For example, a one-ton cylinder of chlorine falls below the Risk Management Planning thresholds set by EPA, but can create levels of chlorine gas two miles off-site that are considered "immediately dangerous to life and health." Department of Energy, "Example Process Hazard Analysis of a Department of Energy Water Chlorination Process," DOE/EH-0340.
www.ombwatch.org /rtkconference/test3.html   (3451 words)

  
 Orum Munroe : Fly!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Just know it's nothing you did or said.
It is my pleasure to help you with your powers, Orum.
They are not something that should be hidden, but rather, embraced.
www.greatestjournal.com /go.bml?journal=storm_warning&itemid=1547&dir=next   (258 words)

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