Word: lumberers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perestroika will be whatever we will be. If we are halfway, we'll have semi- perestroika. If we rebuild with rotting lumber from former labor camps, perestroika will collapse. If we all pull the blankets toward ourselves, perestroika will freeze. What is done in the name of protecting one's cushy armchair isn't ideology, it's cushiology. Between the pro-perestroikers and the anti-perestroikers, unfortunately, there is a large group I call the "oikers." They're the ones who whine constantly about the lack of sugar and other things but do not lift a finger to stop those...
Kalt said that K-School researchers will helpthe Crow Nation take advantage of their tremendouscoal and lumber reserves using their newly wonright to self-determination...
...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...