Word: timbered
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...talked to an old London dockhand some time back. He allowed as how in 1970 it took 108 guys about five days to unload a timber ship. Then came containerization. The comparable task today takes eight folks one day. That is, a 98.5% reduction in man-days, from 540 total to just eight...
DIED. JOSEPH BURTON DELACRUZ, 62, former president of the National Congress of American Indians; of a heart attack; in Seattle. An advocate of tribal sovereignty, he battled federal agencies over fishing and timber rights...
Corruption offers another target. PAGE notes that illegal logging accounts for half the timber harvest in Indonesia. Government officials have long looked the other way because of close financial ties to companies cutting the timber...
...ensure that this sort of insubordination does not occur again. Therefore, official action will be taken against any employee who uses any code name other than the officially designated one to refer to the candidates. Particularly harsh action will be taken against anyone who refers to candidate Sundance as "Timber," "Maple," or any other arboristically derived term. The names "Android," "Hal," and their ilk are also expressly prohibited in reference to Sundance. Similarly, any reference to candidate Tumbler as "Shrub," "Junior," or "Preppy" will be acted on accordingly...
...growth industries [in Africa] is the coffin business," said panelist Bill Harris, a member of the President's mission. "There are now environmental issues because of the free cutting of timber to make coffins...