Word: timber
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...from their posts or jailed, with the stiffest penalties going to those who tried to blame underlings. In Zhejiang province, one commune party secretary named Ji Xinquan got five years in jail for having brought trumped-up court charges against two commune members who had exposed him for stealing timber...
...their second evacuation, and the volcano's continuing assaults were beginning to fray tempers. Said Otis Bouchard, a gas station operator in Castlerock: "I'll tell you one thing. I'm getting damn tired of this mountain." Tom Nelson, a supervisor at a devastated timber camp, echoed that frustration with an understandable, if implausible suggestion: "Why don't they just take a couple of jets and bomb the mountain...
With the latest eruption, the estimated loss to crops, timber and property rose to nearly $1.5 billion. The cost of the cleanup is staggering. Mud dumped into the Cowlitz and Columbia rivers must be dredged out. Roads and bridges will have to be rebuilt and sewage and drain systems unplugged. In Washington State alone, 370,000 people have been left temporarily jobless. Perhaps one-tenth may be out of work for a year. A still incalculable long-term effect may be a rash of respiratory and lung ailments from continued inhalation...
...eruption blew down 150 sq. mi. of timber worth about $200 million, caused an estimated $222 million in damage to wheat, alfalfa and other crops as far east as Missoula, Mont., and buried 5,900 miles of roads under ash. Clearing them could cost another $200 million. The blast created a 20-mile log jam along the Columbia River that blocked shipping between Longview, Wash., and Astoria, Ore. Volcanic mud carried by the river choked the harbor of Portland. Officials estimated that the ports would lose $5 million a day until dredges could clear a new channel through the silt...
...year. Inflation has reached almost 20%. Last month workers at the Sabuk coal mines, demanding a 40% pay hike, rioted for three days; a policeman was killed and scores on both sides were injured before the miners settled for a 20% increase. Three weeks ago, the Tongmyung Timber Co. of Pusan, South Korea's largest plywood maker, went bankrupt, leaving liabilities of $106 million. Some of its 3,000 employees demonstrated for their unpaid wages and skirmished with police. Says a Korean economist: "With more big bankruptcies like that one, much of our labor force could explode...