Word: timber
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...many observers thought it was fairly obvious why Connally was so happy to return to Harvard after serving as a visiting fellow at the Institute of Politics last year. Former President Richard M. Nixon's favorite cabinet member, long considered possible Presidential timber, was considered to be looking for contacts for future campaigns...
...Canada, most of the province's population huddles along a narrow ribbon in the south; the vast majority of Quebecois live within 50 miles of the St. Lawrence, and 82% live within 200 miles of Montreal (pop. 2,758,780). Quebec is rich in iron, copper, zinc and timber, and produces 80% of the non-Communist world's asbestos. Its 450 rivers give it huge reserves of hydropower. Vast hydroelectric projects, like the $16.2 billion James Bay complex now under construction (see map), have made Quebec one of the world's major centers of aluminum production. The province is also...
...acres of state-owned land if Maine will agree to pay the Indians $1.7 million annually for each of the next 15 years. The Indians would also drop claims for three million acres of land owned by large corporations in return for 300,000 acres of average-value timber land and the option to buy 200,000 acres of somewhat poorer-quality land...
...coronation cost about $20 million, which was a bit much for a country whose annual gross domestic product (mostly from diamonds, cotton and timber) is only $250 million. Kenya's Sunday Nation wrote sarcastically about Bokassa's "clowning glory." Zambia's Daily Mail deplored the new Emperor's "obnoxious excesses." Bokassa was unfazed by such criticism, since he knows full well that others will end up paying for his little ceremony. The Emperor will accept aid money from anyone, and currently receives it from South Africa, China and the Soviet Union. The bulk of the largesse...
...Government. The 29% of Washington that belongs to the U.S. is comparatively small: the Government owns 47% of Wyoming, 52% of Oregon, 64% of Idaho?indeed about 57% of all the land west of the Rockies. Bureaucrats decide how minerals and coal will be mined on federal land, how timber and grazing rights will be apportioned, how electricity will be generated and sold, which areas will be set aside for public recreation. Says Ray: "I often feel that the long arm of the Federal Government reaches out this way, but the distance is too great for our voice to penetrate...