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...have some sense of conserving the people’s money. This year the legislature pushed for a bill to subsidize a fictitious railroad with only the potential rights to carry cargo along a certain short route, with the hope that the bill would coax trucking companies into transporting lumber for a reasonable rate. Presumably it took all of Arnold’s business sense to realize that this idea was not a winner...
...Just keep writing. It doesn’t matter what you’re writing about—it could be shoes or lumber. Just write...
Nowhere is this more evident than in Perquín, a coffee and lumber center that in 1980 had a population of 5,000. When the E.R.P. stepped up its guerrilla war, Perquín was repeatedly overrun by battling government and rebel troops, and by 1983 it was a bombed-out ghost town. Today, as those who fled have slowly and steadily returned, it is again home to 4,000 people. Most say that regardless of who is in control, they would rather live in a war zone than in refugee-choked cities...
Recycling and redecorating now go hand in hand as more consumers are turning to the use of reclaimed materialsparticularly woodfor everything from furniture to cabinetry. Companies like New England-- based Staples Cabinet Makers build tables with lumber from 19th century barns. Scavengers can find old doors and fireplaces on websites like oldegoodthings.com and demolitiondepot.com
...Spring Grove, Ill., employees who have stayed off cigarettes a year win a trip for two to Las Vegas. The Hospital Corp. of America in Nashville pays participating staff members 24¢ for each mile run or walked, each quarter-mile swum or four miles bicycled. At Scherer Brothers Lumber Co., boasts Vice President Gregory Scherer, "We have no sick pay, we have well pay." For each month that a worker is neither late nor out ill, the Minneapolis firm awards an extra two hours of salary. And employees who lose no more than three days a year...