Word: lumbering
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...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...
People around Feather Falls remember when anyone who got seriously injured was likely to be strapped into a canoe for a bumpy 20-mile ride down the lumber flume to the Marysville hospital. Those less ill were treated by the Widow Griffith-until she died at the age of 98. Says Marysville's Dr. Lynn Frink: "They would come in with half their face eaten away with a cancer that could have been treated successfully three years ago; or they'd be in bad shape from heart disease when all they needed was digitalis. If they should have...
...Walter Schug, who came to California from Germany, plans to keep production at the present level while concentrating on improving quality. Joseph Phelps, a Colorado-based construction tycoon, planted his first vines in 1973 on the slopes of Napa's Spring Valley area. The winery is made of lumber from century-old railroad bridges; its vineyards range from 200 ft. above sea level to 660 ft., where mists and cool breezes are ideal for noble whites. Phelps also makes Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, some of which are sold under the label Le Fleuron at a sensible price (around...