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...Dickinson is simple and sure. Its few gestures toward stylization sit a trifle uneasily on Jeanne Jones as Persephone, who looks exactly like a China shepherdess; she also looks a little time like she's watching herself in a minor and her voice errs by a fraction of a timber towards stiffness. But Gide's beautiful words gradually enable her to relax her delivery and precise ensemble work by the nymphs further softens the effects...
...natural grasslands in Venezuela and Colombia go largely unused. Still another reason for loss of forests is the in creasing incidence of slash-and-burn agriculture. As impoverished peasants lose their traditional lands to the spreading single-crop plantations, they move higher and higher up forested mountains, clearing away timber for firewood and subsistence farming. In Haiti and Jamaica, the results have been disastrous...
Textile production is central to the nation's economy although the country has untapped resources of timber and national gas. Bangladesh received more than $1.1 billion in foreign aid last year, and is one of the poorest nations in the world, with an annual per capita income of less than...
...Interior Department announced its decision to drop wilderness protection for the 805,000-plus acres less than a week after a weary Congress had adjourned for the holidays. The timber, mining and petroleum industries applauded. Conservationists and some Congressmen called the timing contemptible. The announcement, snapped Ohio Democrat John Seiberling, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Public Lands and National Parks, was "a deliberate attempt to evade...
...industrial base. By next June General Motors and Ford will have closed four out of five automobile assembly plants in the span of three years. The once booming housing industry is expected to finish the year with only 60,000 housing starts, down from 251,000 in 1977. The timber industry has already laid off 3,223 of its 21,000 workers, and the state expects to lose a total of 10,000 construction jobs in 1983. Even the much touted high-tech industries are feeling the pinch. The electronic-components field had back-to-back growth rates...