Word: timber
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Efforts by U.S. Forest Service chief MIKE DOMBECK to disentangle the USFS from the timber industry have provoked a fight with Congress. Republicans are so angry with Dombeck for hampering logging that on Thursday, in an unusual joint hearing, the House Resources, Budget and Appropriations committees will question Dombeck in what is likely to be a scorching job review. Convinced that tree cutting should no longer take priority over conservation and recreation, Dombeck, a former backwoods guide turned scientist, increased restrictions on logging. In his most significant step, he proposed halting construction of new roads in most of the national...
...dampened again as Suharto announced his new Cabinet and for the first time included a family member: his eldest daughter, known as "Tutut," who has extensive business interests. The new Trade Minister is chief crony Bob Hasan, a golfing partner dubbed "the Plywood King" for his control of the timber trade...
Well, what can you do but cry when you've devoted yourself to a candidate like Primary Colors' Jack Stanton--charming, idealistic in some ways, but more than a little slippery? That's the kind of presidential timber we've been getting in the movies lately. Men apt to cut a few moral corners, and then a few more, until all the right angles are as smooth as they are. Men with the scruples of the off-screen President in Wag the Dog, who is caught in a scandal with an underage girl. Or of President Gene Hackman in Absolute...
...Wednesday?s New York Times report that state attorneys general have been meeting in secret to consider their own antitrust lawsuits. Throw in government investigations in Europe and a possible Senate hearing, and you have a similar scenario to the one that bled the tobacco giants. Did somebody say "timber...
DIED. SIR ISAIAH BERLIN, 88, British historian-philosopher of awesome erudition; in Oxford, England. The son of a Jewish timber merchant, Berlin became one of Oxford University's most eminent thinkers. His essays still dazzle, whether ruminating on determinism in Historical Inevitability, updating Mill in Two Concepts of Liberty or exploring Tolstoy's conflicted nature in The Hedgehog and the Fox. (See eulogy, below...