Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...EVEN when the possible candidates address these non-Washington concerns they have failed to do so with vigor. Indeed perhaps the saddest thing about this year's crop of presidential timber is that few of them seem to be morally outraged. Every problem has a practical explanation and solution. And everything seems to be tied to economic competitiveness. Even when Gary Hart, the leading Democratic presidential candidate, argues that we should improve the nation's schools, he says it's because our Gross National Product is suffering...
Back in the children's room, the excitement finished, the kids got back to more important matters, their potato printing. Apparently today's entry of television and presidential timber into their lives was not really all that special...
...earth and each other is self-restraining. While the U.S. and the Soviets must posture about war, less muscle-bound nations, such as Nicaragua, Iran, Iraq and Lebanon, go at the real thing. So fierce are Lebanon's internal wars, one wonders if the country that grew the timber for Solomon's temple will exist in your time. Murderers pretending to be countries wage war continuously in tighter arenas, blowing the limbs off children in railway stations to make their cause appreciated. They are called terrorists, not superpowers, but the power they have, they...
...first saw the monarchs, I became ecstatic and vowed to learn more about them," says Rodolfo Ogarrio, a Harvard-trained lawyer who helped start the group. What Ogarrio discovered was that the butterfly's retreats were threatened by the local farmers, who were gradually clearing the trees for timber and farmland. Says Carlos Gottfried, a co-founder of Monarca: "The forests in the mid-'70s were pristine. A few years later they were receding up the mountain...
There seemed to be the ingredients for some old-time demagoguery in this fall's election. The economic strain was palpable, from the Texas oil patch through the heartland cornfields to the Piedmont textile mills. Toss in the problems of Rocky Mountain mining, the timber woes of the Northwest, and despair in the Rust Belt and there was plenty of material for a latter-day rawboned, loudmouthed populist. Thus invited, none came to the party. There was a good deal of personal mudslinging, but of such limited imagination and low quality as to be totally forgettable...