Word: firs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kennedy was pregnant with Rory when her husband was murdered in 1968; Rory's uncle Ted attended her delivery and played surrogate father to her and her brothers and sisters. It was Rory who cradled her brother Michael as he lay dying on a mountain after skiing into a fir tree, his three children praying at his side. Rory, a documentary filmmaker, had seen suffering in her family, and she had shared in their successes, and so last weekend they were gathering to share in hers as she prepared to marry New York City writer Mark Bailey...
...trucks in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest northeast of Seattle have run her off the road. She shrugs. Washington and Oregon are where the big wave of U.S. logging ran out of room, and the timber wars there--between loggers and environmentalists over uncut remnants of ancient Douglas fir and hemlock forests--are not beanbag fights...
Christmas has come to Harvard, and once again its arrival is accompanied by sickening hypocrisy. Decorated fir trees, green wreaths and red ribbons are Christmas decorations, not non-sectarian seasonal garnishes. Those in the Christian majority can claim otherwise until they're blue in the face, but they're not convincing any-one. Even if the trees and wreaths have no direct religious significance, they are cultural banners of a religious celebration--a celebration not shared by everyone...
...meeting at the College Board last week and in general there was really widespread support fir the changes," Hudson says...
...building-supply chain (sales last year: $24 billion). Customers will be offered "rain forest tours" through the store, spotlighting products made with trees from pristine, old-growth forests around the world: dowels and tool handles of ramin wood from Southeast Asia, doors of Amazon mahogany, cedar shingles and Douglas fir lumber from the temperate rain forests of North America, lauan plywood from the Philippines and Indonesia...