Word: lumber
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Reed wages constant war against what Northrop Frye calls "the lumber of stereotypes, fossilized beliefs, superstitious terrors, crank theories, pedantic dogmatisms, oppressive fashions and all other things that impede the free movement of society." He refuses to use buzz-words or catch-phrases with the easy eloquence of a critic. He refuses to label himself as part of any tradition, be it post-modernist, anti-feminist, even Afro-American. He refuses to talk in categories--when asked about Black writing, he talks about Native Americans, Italian-Americans...
...become the dominant form of discourse between the U.S. and many of its important friends. The brandishing of threats and deadlines also marred U.S. trade relations with neighbors to the north and south. As the European row erupted, U.S. negotiators announced that they had solved -- almost -- a festering softwood-lumber dispute with Canada. Meanwhile, the Administration postponed for at least six months yet another major trade confrontation, this time with debt-laden Brazil. The trouble: stymied U.S. access to that country's computer and information industry...
...traders amid the turbulence surrounding Broadcaster Ted Turner's acquisition of MGM/UA, for which the Atlanta buccaneer paid $1.6 billion last March. In October 1985 the New York-based Maxxam Group, an investment and real estate- holdings firm, made an $800 million tender offer for San Francisco's Pacific Lumber, leading to the companies' merger early this year. Boesky is said to have bought 10,000 shares of Pacific Lumber stock three days before the tender was made public, and he may eventually have owned 5.1% of the company's shares. Another case reportedly receiving scrutiny is the $400 million...
...trade squall blew across the northern border last week. In a sudden reversal of position, the Commerce Department declared Canada was unfairly subsidizing exports of softwood lumber to the U.S., an activity that was worth more than $2.8 billion last year. In response, the Reagan Administration said it would impose a 15% countervailing duty, which is expected to cause the cost of new U.S. housing to rise by $1,000 a unit or more...
...decision will mainly benefit lumber companies in the American Northwest, which have chafed as the Canadian share of the U.S. softwood lumber market has risen from 19% in 1975 to 33%. But the tariff announcement stirred resentment in Ottawa, where it was pointed out that the U.S. Commerce Department three years ago found the same Canadian export practices to be acceptable. Canadian International Trade Minister Patricia Carney said the latest decision "cannot be justified" and added that her government would "pursue all avenues available to us to argue against this determination." There were worries that the softwood-tariff announcement would...