Word: cut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first thing is a "lack of coordination." In ninth grade, Fallows realized he wasn't cut out for basketball or soccer. Still determined to play something, he stumbled across a sport called crew...
...Aplio Internet phone--now there's a technology that I can instantly understand and even endorse. Who among us doesn't want to save money on long-distance phone bills? Aplio, a device that uses the Net to circumvent the phone company, promises to cut "up to 95% off your long-distance bill," according to its marketing literature. I'd be willing to settle for half...
...show in history) had to be shipped to Los Angeles via the Panama Canal and set up inside the Geffen Contemporary. The plates couldn't be craned in through its doors, and so, recalls the museum's director, Richard Koshalek, "we took the direct way. We just cut a big hole in the back wall and had the trucks drive straight in." Then, with the help of a compact but powerful lifting crane whose last major job had been to jack up the concrete slabs of Los Angeles' freeways after they pancaked in the 1994 earthquake, the curved metal slabs...
...requires Pacific Lumber to set aside, for 50 years, an additional 7,000 acres of ancient redwoods that will be off limits to all logging and protected as habitat for the threatened marbled murrelet. The company is also required to set aside an additional 11,000 acres in no-cut buffers next to streams critical to the survival of the endangered coho salmon. It is unfortunate that you characterized what we achieved as saving a few "scraps" of wildlife habitat. BYRON SHER, State Senator Co-Chair, Joint Committee on Headwaters Forest California Legislature Sacramento, Calif...
Your article was totally one-sided and heavily antilogging. I find the statement that "a clear-cut leaves a sharp demarcation line between a woodland full of life and a biological ruin" complete nonsense. As a hunter, I know that the place in a forest to find the largest concentration of all manner of critters is in the regrowth that occurs in burns and clear-cuts. Inasmuch as we seldom let fire do its work in the forest, we are probably doing diversity a favor by selective logging and clear-cutting! DALE ROSS Ashland...