Word: lumbering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finally, after 53 stages of manufacture, the machines lumber off the assembly line; the bright blue ones are destined for the vast farm lands of the Soviet Union, the brilliant red ones for more than 70 nations around the globe. About 3,000 of them have even found their...
...economic effects will be somewhat greater, but not catastrophic. Though trees worth at least $ 1 billion were flattened-including 4% of Weyerhaeuser's total timberlands-executives expect to salvage about 80% of the logs by sawing those not badly scorched into usable lumber. Sportsmen who venture into what was once prime fish and game area on the mountain's flanks will find nearly all life wiped out within a 15-mile radius of the crater. The rivers and state-run fish hatcheries near the mountain have been ruined as breeding grounds for steelhead trout and Chinook salmon. Said...
...single worker by homebuilders results in two additional layoffs in related industries like cement, copper tubing, building materials and wood. The signs are already ominous. Oregon Governor Victor Atiyeh reports that sawmills in his state are "closing almost daily." The Western Wood Products Association notes that 141 lumber mills in the twelve Western timber states have already closed and an additional 249 have curtailed production...
...lessons. With the greatest sympathy and delicately discerning judgement he simply read the great poets. Of course, one reason he could be so persuasively dismissive of what he called "lit. crit." was that he had mastered the arcana of his own field before relegating them to his own critical lumber-room. And in talking with him you were always conscious of his irony, a quality so highly developed and anarchic in Jonathan that at times you could see it threatening to break its chains and devastate an entire poet or critical perspective...
...loathing the role calls for--he is us, but we don't have to like him for it. Lisa Sloan is marvelously attractive and genuine as Kathy Marianne Owen, a consummate actress when intact, is literally hobbled by a huge cast on her leg that forces her to lumber around the stage, punctuating her speech with thrusts of an orthopedic cane, in a way Adrienne, without a broken foot, never would...