Word: timber
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...TIMBER CUTTERS...
...enthusiasts believe that assets like oil, timber and an industrious, literate population are the makings of another Asian miracle. Harder heads are skeptical, noting that the nation consolidated by Ho Chi Minh's heirs after the 1975 fall of Saigon is poverty-stricken and still at least partly under the thumb of ancient Marxists. Per capita income remains at $200 a year, one of the poorest in the world. Says Julian Reid, a director of Jardine Fleming Securities in Hong Kong: "In the medium to long term, Vietnam is extremely exciting. The short term is full of frustrations...
...would have spelled relief.Brahms composed this work for the "natural horn"prevalent in an age just before his own. The"natural horn" appealed to him since one must muteit with one's hand in order to play certain notes,and he desired that the entire trio maintain acorrespondingly muted timber. However, even whenmuted, the passion of Brahms' compositions cannever be suppressed. The trio which performed inSanders, Robert Rauch on horn and Mihae Lee onpiano, with, of course, Stephanie Chase on violin,managed the impossible. The first movement, markedAndante and filled with yearning two-note slursand melodies, was taken so slowly...
...five district rangers at Ochoco National Forest in Oregon spend as much ! time hacking through red tape as they do overseeing the 1 million acres of timber. They have to juggle 53 separate budgets, including one for fence construction and another for fence maintenance, divided into 577 management codes and 1,769 accounting lines. Each ranger spends about 30 workdays a year just tracking the spending in the various accounts...
...Gore's track record is decidedly mixed. He was able to get an international biodiversity treaty and to preserve funding for the space station. He worked out respectable compromises on the controversial timber and wetlands policies. In a fierce debate that lasted until two hours before the President was to deliver his Earth Day speech, Gore persuaded Clinton to include several tough proposals, among them a pledge to reduce greenhouse gases to 1990 levels by the year...