Word: timber
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Just a few years ago, Japan loomed as anenvironmentalist's nightmare. While the rest of the world was awakening to an unfolding ecological calamity, Japan was defiantly importing such environmentally sensitive items as ivory and tropical timbers without apparent regard for the consequences. More recently, however, Japan has begun to turn around. The nation imposed a moratorium on ivory imports, altered fishing practices that threaten sea life, and has begun to discuss reducing its consumption of tropical woods. Part of the credit for the change must go to Yoichi Kuroda, a Japanese environmental activist who exposed the mayhem wrought...
...bond buyers: the infamous Columbia Savings & Loan of Beverly Hills, which was seized by the government in January. The seizure has left Uncle Sam holding Columbia's share of the Maxxam bonds. Maxxam, left short of cash by the takeover, has increased the cutting and selling of the redwood timber, thus infuriating local conservationists...
...seriousness of the crisis that prompted T.F.A.P. Moist tropical forests cover just 6% of the earth's terrestrial surface but contain at least 50% of the world's variety of insects, plants and animals. Throughout the world the forests are chopped to clear land, provide firewood or supply the timber market. A report issued in 1990 by the U.N.'s Food and Agricultural Organization shows that the rate of deforestation in the tropical world has accelerated 80% since...
More precisely, Horn is front and center, but her secret -- her jazz essence -- is still intact. It's what draws you first when you hear the smoky timber of her voice, the leisured elegance of her phrasing. And it's what holds you, wondering about the magic she brings to tunes as varied as Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying and You Won't Forget Me. Says jazz critic Martin Williams: "She's not only good and tasteful, but she also has that wonderful sense of drama that can turn any little song into a three-minute...
...decades, ever widening patches of the Amazon have been burned or cut down by developers building towns, ranchers raising cattle, companies going after timber and settlers trying to grow crops. Mendes was among those forest dwellers who realized that their way of life was slowly being snuffed out. So in 1975, he organized a rural workers' union. To stop the deforestation, union members and their families formed human blockades around areas scheduled to be cleared. These Gandhiesque acts, called empates, helped save thousands of acres but also made Mendes unpopular with landowners and local officials...