Word: timbered
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...been a wild ride. As chairman, Bourland, who has a business degree from Black Hills State University, took stock of his tribe's assets. "We had no timber to sell," he says. "We had no coal to mine. But the Internet is something anyone can do anywhere." Dragging his tribe into the 21st century, he turned the Cheyenne River Telephone Authority into a satellite-TV, cell-phone and Internet-service provider--and then spun off a new data-processing corporation called Lakota Technologies Inc. LTI employs 20 people, but Bourland dreams of 1,000 workers scattered across the 2.8-million...
...means no one is happy at all. Such was the case Friday, when the White House announced it would neither discard nor strictly enforce a Clinton administration rule limiting new roads and development in national forests. With that, Bush managed to simultaneously sideswipe already fuming environmentalists and let the timber industry know that he may not be quite the ally they had initially hoped. In short, the White House has managed to satisfy no one and frustrate just about everybody...
...energy discontent in which natural-gas rates have soared to their highest level in 15 years, and that ever lovable cartel, OPEC, has slashed its oil output again to keep prices up. California's woes are testing everyone from Governor Gray Davis, a moderate Democrat seen as presidential timber, to George W. Bush, who last week stiffed Davis' request for federal aid to the staggering utilities...
...Rather than take on Lin and his well-equipped private army, Burma's generals cut a generous deal with him. In return for keeping the peace, Lin was granted immunity from prosecution and full autonomy in the Mongla region. The regime also gave him lucrative business concessions in gold, timber and gems, as well as?crucially?tacit permission to trade in opium...
...Earth First!, renounced the use of violence. Since then, ELF members and sympathizers have waged a stealth war against "those who profit from the destruction of the natural environment." The attacks include a $12 million fire at a ski resort in Vail, Colo.; a $500,000 fire at a timber-company headquarters in Medford, Ore.; and another that destroyed a partly built home in Bloomington, Ind., that the ELF said was part of a development that threatened the local water supply...