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...cracked the case by first amassing evidence against bribe-paying contractors. Two of the contractors-Lumber Mill Owner Dorothy Griffin and Building Materials Salesman Guy Moore-were persuaded to help investigators catch fellow suppliers and the recipients of their largesse. Scores of transactions-conducted in pickup trucks and county maintenance barns-were tape-recorded. Moore claims that in 28 years of business, he arranged, on the average, more than one bribe every working...
...stocks of companies involved in the battered housing industry, which has suffered from soaring mortgage costs, also fell sharply. The shares of Georgia Pacific, a leading lumber producer, dropped 7.1%, to 22⅞, while Ryan Homes Inc., a Pittsburgh home builder, dropped 5.2%, to 18¼. U.S. Home Corp. slumped two points...
...Early on the aunts taught him to hate people like themselves, who were unkind to animals and children, and to see lying and imagination as the only power the weak and clever have over the strong and dull. Many of his best stories, The Penance, for instance, and The Lumber-Room, turn on the triumph of children over adults. In Sredni Vashtar, the most notably bloodthirsty, a surrogate aunt is actually done in by a persecuted small boy's pet ferret...
...Philippines is still reeling from the dual blows of sharply rising oil prices in 1979-80 and plunging prices for its major exports of coconut oil, copper concentrate, sugar and lumber. Growth has been declining. It was 4.7% last year, and it will trail off to 4% this year. Meanwhile, the country's external debt has reached $14 billion and has recently been increasing by $300 million a month...
...market is the growing inventory of unsold completed homes, enough for 9.3 months of sales at the current pace. This is second only to the record backlog of 12.4 months in April 1980. Sluggish starts have idled construction crews, slowed demand for everything from roofing nails, cement and lumber to sashes, sills and sand, and generally contributed to the slowdown in the U.S. economy...