Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from home stoves is nearing crisis proportions In winter, when the mountain air sparkles and snow blankets the nearby hills, Missoula, Mont. (pop. 33,000), might easily be mistaken for an Alpine resort. Last week, however, it had the smogbound look of Los Angeles. A dismal haze cloaked the lumber community, virtually blotting out the slopes of the Bitterroot Range. Health authorities were forced to sound a week-long air pollution alert. They urged pregnant women, joggers and the elderly to stay indoors rather than risk breathing the foul air. Some children were not allowed out of classrooms during recesses...
...flat housing market would eventually crimp sales of building materials and home furnishings, from timber to toilets. The lumber industry is still shaking off the recession and is hardly prepared for a new shock. In the Northwest, the number of sawmills has declined by about 13% since 1979, and their work force has dropped by 20%, to 96,000. Says H.A. Roberts, executive vice president of the Western Wood Products Association: "We're more efficient these days, and sales volume is relatively good. But we're not nearly as healthy...
...slumbering lumber of Eddie Murray awoke with startling quickness last night, as did tempers on both teams, and the Baltimore Orioles defeated the Chicago White Sox 11-1 to take a two-games-to-one lead in the American League playoffs...
...incidentally, stands for Throneberry, the first baffling circumstance in last week's bizarre comeback story of a baseball bat that hit the losing home run. Wood is not a casual concern to ballplayers. Why a .353 hitter like Brett would lumber along with a Marvelous Marv Throneberry model (lifetime .237) is the sort of paradox that, scientists say, has trees talking to themselves. With two men out and one runner on base in the top of the ninth inning, the New York Yankees leading the Royals, 4-3, Brett took up his gooey cudgel and went out to meet...
...Administration's commitment to free trade, however, has been shaky. While the White House has withstood the demands of groups like the lumber and machine-tool industries that it raise tariffs or slow the pace of imports, it last month increased, from 4.4% to 49.4%, the duty on large Japanese motorcycles, which have captured 85% of the U.S. market. That action came after a plea for help from the Milwaukee-based Harley-Davidson Motor Co., the lone survivor of 143 companies that once made motorcycles in the U.S. The Administration will soon face a new test of its free...