Word: hardwood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tropical rain forest in the U.S. National Forest System, will see the destruction firsthand. The 40-ft. leafy cathedral that vaulted over the roads is now open to the sun, and once lush reaches of forest are bare, broken and brown. In the hardest-hit areas, 60% of the hardwood trees are gone, including huge mahoganies, and many of the rare Puerto Rican parrots have disappeared...
What Cambodia needs most is domestic stability and a place in the international economy. According to The New York Times, Phnom Penh markets are filled with rice and other food, but they have been unable to export such commodities as hardwood, rubber, rice and seafood...
...CREW. Based in Manhattan's up-and-coming Flatiron section and housed in a loft building with hardwood floors and exposed industrial pipes, J. Crew is far from folksy. The company's offerings are decidedly casual but with a note of sophistication. Arthur Cinader, 61, J. Crew's chairman, describes the J. Crew look as "understated flair." Cinader, whose family-owned firm operates a clothing-and-furnishings catalog business called Popular Club Plan, started J. Crew six years ago and had an almost instant...
...years and years, the Ivies were dominated on the hardwood by Penn and Princeton, who claimed 23 of the 25 Ivy titles between 1960 and 1985. And because they were travelling partners, opposing teams hated to head south on the road trip they called "The Lost Weekend...
...price of hardwood that Ray cuts is lower, in part because the kilns buy more of the cheaper log slabs -- the cutoff outsides of logs when they are squared by a sawmill into lumber. These, along with the hardwood, are charred in kilns, put through a hammermill and mixed with charred sawdust, coal, limestone, sodium nitrate, borax, wheat paste and steam, which turns the mixture into a slurry that is pressed into briquettes and then put through a drying process...