Word: elm
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...collected by Catawba from 1972 to 1978 actually was paid for time that Catawba officers and staff had spent on Catawba's financial transactions rather than on managing the other companies. Moreover, said the SEC, another $570,000 in such fees was spent on the upkeep of Great Elm, the 46-acre estate in Sharon, Conn., where the Buckley children grew up. Another $500 a month in fees was spent to help support a family member living in Texas...
Lawsuits pose continuing financial problems for the family, but the Buckleys are far from broke. Great Elm, however, is no longer the same. Its gracious 18th century mansion is being cut into a complex of fine condominiums. Priced from $175,000 to $200,000 each, they will, if sold, help ease the burdens imposed by the SEC's crackdown on the family's businesses...
...Northeast. As many as 30,000 caterpillars can infest a single tree, and each of them can consume five or ten small leaves a day. They seem especially partial to the majestic oak but also eat fruit trees like apple and cherry, the maple and, alas, the already imperiled elm. If nothing else is available, they will nibble away at spruce, hardy pines and hemlocks, even shrubs-more than 500 species...
...only really good news from the bug battlefront is that most healthy trees can survive two or three onslaughts. Indeed, foresters like to point out that the moths often strengthen the woodland by eliminating sickly specimens. But such Darwinian reassurances are little comfort to suburbanites worried about a favorite elm or oak. By now, about all they can do is keep the tree as healthy as possible -faithful watering and feeding help -gather up and destroy every clutch of moth eggs in sight, and wait until next year. -By Frederic Golden. Reported by Anne Moffat/Ithaca and Sara White/Boston
...crowded gymnasium of a suburban Connecticut high school 60 miles from Manhattan, Reaganomics has come home to roost. Welcome to Weston's annual town meeting, a 200-year-old form of democratic self-rule that once was as common in New England as the American elm, and now is becoming increasingly rare...