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...executives remain wary of making capital investments. A common nightmare is that the dollar will regain its strength. Reports Lynn Michaelis, chief economist at Weyerhaeuser, a leading lumber and paper producer: "The strong dollar of 1985 is having a haunting effect when it comes to investing large chunks of capital." It takes about three years to build a large factory, and companies have no idea what economic conditions will be like when the plant is finished...
...lyrics powerful, but the scenery is very cleverly done. A revolving section of the stage is used to give the impression of characters walking away and the world passing by. In a battle scene, the actors hide behind an imposing barricade, made from chairs and scraps of lumber. The scenes under the street, in a sewer, are suitably dark and foggy...
Somewhere south of Fredericksburg, Va., exhaustion obliterates caution. Turn off into a mercury-lit nightmare. Motels, shopping strips and truck stops lie scattered on the landscape. Out of the chaos of blinking signs and curbless entrances, a motel's canopy appears. The lobby seems assembled from unfinished lumber constructed to meet a wistful marketing illusion, something between motel and convention place. Members of a meeting of a fellowship for disabled Christians wander about, wearing their names on paper stickers. Hand over a plastic card for a room in which a television set flickers on with MTV and a radio offers...
...inside of the chamber remained a mystery until early the next morning, when the video camera was finally lowered into place. What the scientists saw & on the monitor looked like a pile of lumber under reed matting. Even so, recalled Tans, "as soon as we saw it, we knew it was a boat." Tohamy Mahmoud Ali, an Egyptian worker who had helped excavate the first vessel, broke into excited Arabic as he recognized the disassembled ship lying in its narrow pit. At one end were several upright pieces, perhaps parts of the prow...
...National Center for Atmospheric Research's Francis Bretherton: "Suppose it's August in New York City. The temperature is 95 degrees; the humidity is 95%. The heat wave started on July 4 and will continue through Labor Day." While warmer temperatures might boost the fish catch in Alaska and lumber harvests in the Pacific Northwest, he says, the Great Plains could become a dust bowl; people would move north in search of food and jobs, and Canada might rival the Soviet Union as the world's most powerful nation. Bretherton admits that his scenario is speculative. But, he says...