Word: lumbering
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...them powering a single home that has run a line into the tangle. The streets are also clogged with schools of motor scooters, with most of the riders free of helmets but laden with comically massive loads--a quartet of big-screen TV sets, exquisitely balanced piles of lumber, pyramids of water bottles...
After chatting up a Home Depot employee, the rule-breaking rogue took all the necessary measurements, and was astonished to find that Home Depot was willing to cut all the lumber for him. A few boxes of screws and a power drill later, he was prepared to construct...
...dollars for a box destined for the incinerator. To make matters worse, that shrinking market is also sought by a growing number of competitors: discounters, Chinese imports and independent craftsmen who ply their wares directly to consumers via storefronts or the Web. Add the rising costs of steel and lumber, and you begin to hear the opening lines of an industry requiem...
...city councilman Wilson Soria. "For centuries, many of our cultural values have been unrecognized because we've been ruled by a Constitution that responds to the needs of foreigners." The proposals include constitutionalizing traditional forms of indigenous community justice as well as the national "recuperation" of natural resources like lumber, silver, water...
...Perry, head of the Convention and Visitors Board, says the empty and damaged hotels "are like Baghdad on a bad day." But for the national economy, what's more critical is that Katrina disrupted a vital node in the country's transport network. You name the commodity--coffee, fertilizer, lumber, steel, wheat--it ships through the Gulf's ports, rails and riverways. All told, Katrina knocked out a region that contributes $130 billion to GDP, roughly 1% of the national total, according to Economy.com Risk Management Solutions, a leading risk-assessment firm based in Newark, Calif., estimates that damages will...