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Word: timbered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forays at gourmet cooking are disasters; insolvency threatens. Then, in the nick of time, Lundgren's wife Diana gets him a job with Dr. Rabun, a prosthetic Edison who designs sexual aids that imitate the motion of swimming porpoises. The doctor's problems: his extensive investments in timber and real estate are being skimmed, and his gay son and free-spending wife are bleeding him dry. Warlock's assignment: remove the bad apples from the barrel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hick Gumshoe | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...Torrents of hot mud went coursing down the mountainside, flattening trees for miles around and turning the Toutle River into a flood of sludge that swept away several bridges. The eruption killed 34 people, demolished 178 homes and devastated hundreds of thousands of acres, much of it rich timber land. By the time the dust cleared, 150 sq. mi. of once green countryside lay lifeless, under what looked like a heavy fall of gray snow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Slowly, the Wounds Begin to Heal | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

...handful of local loggers and their families emigrated to Alaska to avoid having to live near the volcano. But most are making money cleaning up. Tom Henderson, a foreman of a team of loggers working to salvage what might be as much as $50 million worth of downed timber for Weyerhaeuser Co., gets $11.80 an hour, plus a $6-a-day hazardous-duty bonus. So does Norm Pettit, who came from Coos Bay, Ore., because "this is the only boom area in logging in the county." Jobs with cleanup and logging crews have attracted enough newcomers to push enrollment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Slowly, the Wounds Begin to Heal | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

...Watt has proposed "unlocking" many of the more than 500 million federal acres under his protection for mining, timbering and grazing, despite evidence that those lands now available for development are not being properly used. The Secretary supports proposed legislation that would make it easier for oil and timber interests to prevent the designation, by Congress, of new wilderness areas in national forests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Trouble with Watt | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

...American people is to provide the instrument of organization in sector after sector." When this begins to happen. Nader says, "people begin to realize that they should control what they already own, like millions of dollars in pension funds, the public airways, the public lands and minerals and resources, timber--all of which are now owned by the American people and controlled by a handful of corporations...

Author: By Charles W. Slack, | Title: Fighting the Corporate Goliath | 4/22/1981 | See Source »

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