Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Everyone else is out chopping down the forest, Bunyans, nay Weyerhauesers. But White is standing still and looking at the trees, separating the solid lumber from the rotted. And from a single tree he can find the whole wood--almost the reverse of the more common sort of writing, which takes the world and boils it down into a single character. It is skill--not passion, not energy, not vision--that carries White; for anyone without the skill, his method of approaching big ideas is impossible. He is a singles hitter, but his average is high...
...reeling as the towering cost of money pushes one firm after another to the edge of bankruptcy and, all too frequently, right down into the abyss of forced liquidation. During the first week of October alone, 468 U.S. companies, ranging in size from neighborhood dry cleaners to sprawling regional lumber mills, closed their doors for good, a rate that is more than double the number of a year ago and a cruel reminder to Ronald Reagan that for millions of self-employed small businessmen, supply-side economics is coming to mean pain and suffering aplenty...
...cracked the case by first amassing evidence against bribe-paying contractors. Two of the contractors-Lumber Mill Owner Dorothy Griffin and Building Materials Salesman Guy Moore-were persuaded to help investigators catch fellow suppliers and the recipients of their largesse. Scores of transactions-conducted in pickup trucks and county maintenance barns-were tape-recorded. Moore claims that in 28 years of business, he arranged, on the average, more than one bribe every working...
...stocks of companies involved in the battered housing industry, which has suffered from soaring mortgage costs, also fell sharply. The shares of Georgia Pacific, a leading lumber producer, dropped 7.1%, to 22⅞, while Ryan Homes Inc., a Pittsburgh home builder, dropped 5.2%, to 18¼. U.S. Home Corp. slumped two points...
...Early on the aunts taught him to hate people like themselves, who were unkind to animals and children, and to see lying and imagination as the only power the weak and clever have over the strong and dull. Many of his best stories, The Penance, for instance, and The Lumber-Room, turn on the triumph of children over adults. In Sredni Vashtar, the most notably bloodthirsty, a surrogate aunt is actually done in by a persecuted small boy's pet ferret...