Word: frampton
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...edges of many parks. Timber cutting next to Olympic National Park in Washington State has reduced the area's forest from 689,871 acres in 1959 to 106,000 acres today. "Trees in the forest are cut down to the edge of the park," says Wilderness Society President George Frampton. The Reagan Administration has authorized very little money for purchases of park land. In 1978 the budget was $681 million; for 1989 the Administration has requested $17 million...
Development is dangerous, contends Frampton, because the parks are part of ecological systems extending beyond set boundaries. Animals, Frampton suggests, do not follow dotted lines. "We don't object to logging on the edge of the parks just because we love trees," he says. "We object because it changes the natural conditions within the park...
...Henry Ruth and George Frampton, members of Cox's prosecution team, challenged those accounts in their testimony Tuesday...
...John Joel, 10. During the week Knapp commutes from his Manhattan office to his mother's house in suburban Westchester County. He usually arrives late because he spends the evenings with his mistress Nina in the city. At home, his children grow aimless and petulant. Visions of Peter Frampton fill Mary's head and threaten her chances of passing a summer-school English course. Obese John Joel's idea of a perfect day is: "Have Mary out of the house. Have the air conditioner on and read comics. No big deal...
Between the Knapps and their children is a middle generation of bemused souls. Cynthia Forrest teaches summer school and has the unenviable task of getting Mary and other Peter Frampton fans to pay a little attention to Jane Austen. Cynthia's boyfriend, Peter Spangle, is in Spain dribbling away the last of a small inheritance. He left before reversing the fan in the kitchen window; the hot air blows...