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...business-page headlines last week were a relentless reminder of the gathering force of the current U.S. recession. With each passing day, the industrial landscape is increasingly marred by padlocked factory gates and smokeless smokestacks. Spreading from cotton mills in Georgia to lumber camps in Oregon, the slump has swiftly swelled the ranks of the jobless. The Labor Department announced last week that November's unemployment rate rose again, to 8.4%, the highest level in six years, up from 8% in October and 7% in July. This means that about 9 million Americans and their families are facing...
Lundgren sets out with the family Airedale, a dim, stubborn beast named Hudley who drinks by submerging his head and opening his mouth. An uncertain backwoods cunning helps the make-believe p.i. collar the lumber rustlers, so it's on to Florida to deal with Dr. Rabun's wife...
...usual stacks of lumber are occupying Leverett Old Library these days as Slow Dance on the Killing Ground, one of several House shows moving from the audition-and-bookwork stage to the run-through, starts to take shape...
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...