Word: timbered
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There is a war going on in the Western U.S., and battalions of men and women from all over the country are fighting it. With water tanks, pumps and miles upon miles of hoses, this yellow-clad army is struggling against fires that are raging through the tall timber of the Pacific Northwest, the grasslands and sagebrush of Oregon and Nevada, the tinder-dry chaparral of California...
...Babcock is crouching over one promising timber in the Baker backyard, like a detective on the trail of colonial history. His blunt fingers run over the surface, ivory with age, tracing arcs and circles cut 300 years ago. "They didn't have rulers. They did everything by compass." Another beam reveals a row of auger holes, evidence of a hayrack. "Too low for horses," declares the Sherlock Holmes of barns. "Sheep, undoubtedly...
...that as a believer. The crimes Nichols is suspected of are inexcusable. The serenity of Smith is close to inexplicable. But the message of the Gospels is that God works with the crooked timber of human failure. That was an exceptional moment of redemption. But every day we have smaller, calmer chances to turn another's life around, to serve, to listen. How often do we simply not see what is in front of us? How often do we believe that the world's evils--from terrorism to crime to emotional cruelty--are beyond our capacity to change? Or that...
...called the management company’s strategy “diversification writ large.” But the magazine noted that the University’s money managers can still make “huge bets,” like a commodities investment of over $2 billion in timber, or around one tenth of the total endowment...
...called the management company’s strategy “diversification writ large.” But the magazine noted that the University’s money managers can still make “huge bets,” like a commodities investment of over $2 billion in timber, or around one tenth of the total endowment...