Word: line
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...alone standing on a flat gray rock in the Snake River, roll casting, as if I had walked there by myself. Out goes the line, like a river winding on a river. The fly whips and curls. I strip the line. I am beginning to see what he means by process. It is far more satisfying to cast for a fish than to have one on your hook. The consequence completes the process, so it is necessary to the process. But it also carries a kind of disappointment in completion...
Failing to tough out my own problems, I hand him my fishing line, which I now have tangled into the shape of a bird's nest, a condor's. He begins to work at it with saintly patience, then to my great relief, shows normal human frustration by letting out an expletive that has to do with maternity and copulation...
Unlike many businesses that "window dress," as Walker puts it, their annual reports with environmental mission statements, he's been willing to take a hit on the bottom line, if necessary. In the mid-'80s, when Greenpeace was protesting Norwegian whaling, he canceled a huge prawn contract with Norway at considerable cost, and has done no more business with the country...
...year ain?t what it used to be. According to the New York Times, the U.S. Census Bureau has decided to reevaluate the parameters of poverty, and is contemplating a threshold $3,000 higher than the previous ceiling of $16,600 for a family of four. The poverty line, a singularly subjective definition of what it means to be poor in America, was established during the Johnson administration. Adjusted regularly for inflation, it serves as a primary indicator of the economy?s health - the fewer people under it, the better - and also establishes which families are eligible for government...