Word: logging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Log Is a Log Is a Log. "Masterworks in Wood" covers a lot of ground, once over and rather lightly. One of the oldest objects in it, a lean and time-scarred funerary horse, was made in China late in the Eastern Chou dynasty, some 2,200 years ago; the more recent works include a scholar's writing box and an incised sign from a sake shop in 19th century Japan. The works are predominantly Buddhist, although there are two or three exceptional Shinto cult objects. The stylistic range is also very broad. Some of the pieces...
...liberals came up with a number of rationalizations for their support of Byrd, the primary one being that with a Democratic president in the White House, the Majority Leader's ideology was relatively unimportant. As one of Byrd's colleagues put it, "Byrd will just be a hollow log for (Carter and the Congress) to leave messages in." What was needed, they argued, was a capable manager who could secure the enactment of administration initiatives. As Adlai E. Stevenson III of Illinois said: "It seems to me that what the Senate needs more than anything else is management...
...discussing homework problems, the two of them ran through the list of candidates for every top Cabinet job in the Government. From time to time Carter raised some worries: they still had too few top women, too few good names on the Treasury list. Carter pulled out his own log, a red notebook in which he had recorded all his telephone calls and interview notes. He read some of them aloud to Jordan...
...log on the brazier...
Peter S. Gardner 76-4, spent part of several summers building a one room Lincoln Log cabin on his family's property in northern Vermont. Next week, Gardner and his brother will stretch a canvas across the top of the unfinished structure and camp beneath it in sub-zero temperatures...