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...Lumber for the Bösendorfer is seasoned outdoors for three or four years before being used, and each handcrafted mechanism takes over a year to complete. The keys are ivory, a nearly extinct luxury; the bushings - the tiny linings of the piano's moving parts- are still made of felt. (Steinway, by contrast, has switched to Teflon bushings, which require much less time to insert and glue, but can squeak...
...farms. "We saw a whole lot more than we ever suspected," he recalls, flipping through color photos of half-acre patches that pock the hillsides. "It's all over the place." To escape detection, many weed farmers raise their plants on terrain owned by the government or the lumber companies. Rural police say they do not have the time or the money to chase after all the tiny plots in remote areas. Residents sympathize with the lawmen's plight and pay little heed to the modern-day bootleggers. Sighs former State Senator Lynn Newbry: "I suppose it's a similar...
...industries' costs, and a pledge to change. Carter is considering several regulatory reforms suggested by Barry Bosworth, head of the Council on Wage and Price Stability (see box), including the opening of more federally owned timberland to cutting by private companies in order to increase the supplies of lumber and thereby hold down those prices...
...sawdust used as bedding in the rodents' cages. With all the fervor of a Baker Street Irregular, he then traced the suspect sawdust to a maker of wooden window frames. There, Jones found, the manufacturer had, quite legally, sprayed a wood preservative containing dieldrin on his lumber to protect it against infestations of woodworms. The mice took in a little sawdust each time they ate the food pellets. While the amount of dieldrin was not great enough to kill short-lived mice, Jones reports in Nature, it was certainly enough, over time, to do in the owls, which...
Other proposals in the memo: reduce from 6% to 5% the pay raise scheduled for 1.4 million federal employees this fall; open more federally owned timberland to cutting by private companies in order to increase supplies and hold down the price of lumber; pledge resistance to restrictions on trade; appoint a Cabinet-level "inflation czar" to function as a sort of federal ombudsman who would call attention to excessive Government spending...