Word: lumber
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...Center for Business and Economic Analysis at Texas A&M. To begin with, many think that productivity is growing faster than the official figures show, a suspicion publicly voiced by Greenspan. One reason: the official measures are based largely on output of things--numbers of autos, board feet of lumber--and may be overlooking computer-driven gains, especially in service industries. "It's very hard to measure electronic bits floating around in the atmosphere," notes Hazleton...
...area's commerce centers on the lumber industry, which is note-worthy because the FBI says the Unabomber made his painstakingly polished bombs out of wood...
During the second act, the people indulge in the most extreme vulgarity. One lumber-jack (Craig Hanson) eats himself to death; another (Kirk Bangstad '99) is killed in a boxing match, and all of the men of the city push and shove for a short trip through the whorehouse. Finally, Jimmy indulges in drinking but is unable to pay the bill. Again, it would seem that Jimmy, while certainly influenced by the city's greedy leaders, is just as guilty as the other sinners, but in this production he is portrayed as an innocent victim. His subsequent arrest, however, makes...
Buchanan, in the meantime, focused on Dole. The fiery political commentator tried to use appearances at TimCo Lumber Co. in Barnstead yesterday and in Manchester Friday evening in Manchester to push the party toward his protectionist and socially conservative agenda...
...from a flood of apparently chaotic information known as 'data mining.' "For example," says Dowell, "if you have a sudden run on beds and axes in Minnesota stores, and can't figure out why, data mining might tell you that there has been a sudden forestry boom and that lumber jacks are now setting up new camps. Applications could range from air traffic control to playing the stock market, or taking chess as a model, even to the next...