Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alumni of '56 include a cattle rancher, the chairman of Saks Fifth Avenue, a philosopher, professors, the director of the National Gallery of Art, a priest, a librarian, a lumber wholesaler, an ambassador, a television correspondent, an analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency, a state senator, a pathologist, a househusband, a pilot, a salesman of women's shoes, and a mediator of environmental disputes...
...stepped down to where we were anyway. He was wearing a lumber-jack shirt and pointy boots. "I believe we haven't met," he said, calmly dusting his hands off before clapping us each on a shoulder. "Lenny here is deceiving you a bit. That's no Death's Angels hat he's wearing--he's my newest lab assistant Sometimes called...
...Prime Minister is cast in a very different mold. The son of a wealthy lumber dealer, he served as a naval paymaster in The Netherlands East Indies (now Indonesia) and Formosa (now Taiwan) during World War II. For a few years after the war he was so embittered that he insisted on always wearing a black tie, since "every Japanese should be in mourning." But in the early '60s, Nakasone was deeply impressed by the political style of the late Robert F Kennedy, from whom he picked up the very un-Japanese habit of shaking hands with everyone...
...taking the Northern California seat that had been held for ten terms by Don Clausen, 59. Clausen lost to 36-year-old State Assemblyman Douglas Bosco, who was a congressional page when Clausen arrived in Washington in 1963. Bosco hammered away at unemployment in the district's dominant lumber industry, while a group opposed to atomic weapons heavily publicized Clausen's vote against a nuclear-freeze resolution that lost in the House by exactly two ballots...
California's deficit is trifling compared with Oregon's, which will be at least $400 million and could reach $1.6 billion (the latter total would be more than 50% of the state's $3 billion budget). Reason: Oregon's lumber-based economy has all but collapsed in the housing slump. With unemployment at 10.1% and personal income and business taxes plummeting (the state has no sales tax), legislators will meet in January, their third attempt in a year to devise emergency measures. Possible solutions: a stiff income tax surcharge and new "sin" taxes on cigarettes...