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...with the Green Tree Group, and they said ‘Sonny, you’ve wasted so much wood,’” Peixoto says...
...STOCK ON WOOD You'd expect hard assets to do well in a down market, so here's a suggestion: 2-by-4s. Companies that harvest trees for lumber are amassing impressive records on the Street. Returns on timber investments were up 4.2% last year, while the S&P sank 9.1%. In the past 30 years, the annual average return on timber was 15.2%, against 13.2% for the S&P 500 index. Behind the strong performance: a resilient home-building sector. If housing stays strong, so will timber. As there's no mutual fund that's a pure play...
...loaded with creature comforts. It has eight twin-bedded cabins with attached bathrooms and hot showers. Inside the pilot's hatch is a consoling array of gadgetry, including a global positioning satellite system. And the galley is a paneled dining hall that seats 16 with a magnificent solid-wood table and, behind the stove, a chef from Hanoi. At lunch, he piles plates high with seafood bought fresh from local sampans, serving up four or five courses of fish, squid, prawns and crab, which we washed down with beer. Squeezing ourselves into the kayaks afterward became steadily more...
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...Sunday Times called the plans "bizarre ... the ending of a great era"), the scheme has found favor with actors who, among other things, disliked the dingy backstage conditions at the Barbican. Toby Stephens, a much-praised RSC Coriolanus in 1994, calls it a "timely cutting away of dead wood for a company that was overstretched." RSC managing director Chris Foy speaks enthusiastically of a break from his company?s "well-engineered but constricting operating model, a move away from the railway timetable concept." But whether the RSC finds a new direction, or has its identity chipped away by the dogfight...