Andrew Denman, the president of the Tasmanian special timbers alliance, said his industry welcomed the potential delisting because a "very significant proportion of the specialty timber resource was locked up without any consultation" by the Tasmanian forest agreement and extension of world heritage areas.
Spices, rare timbers, rhinoceros horn, silks, jewels, lacquerware, celadon, folding screens and the magical ingredients on which alchemists base their art: all filled up the warehouses at Naha, the main Okinawa port.
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It guaranteed secure supplies for timber companies which, in return, agreed to shift their sources from native trees to plantation timber; and it protected regions of native timbers with "high conservation value".
But the nub of the matter, as he described it in a calmly lyrical passage of his book, "Caveat", was this:The [Reagan] White House was as mysterious as a ghost ship; you heard the creak of the rigging and the groan of the timbers and sometimes even glimpsed the crew on deck.
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One striking sequence shows Endurance buried up to her deck in ice, a tangle of rigging and splintered timbers, every surface thickly covered with hoar-frost.The American Museum of Natural History has enlisted all manner of multi-media gizmos and high-tech gadgets to bring the story of the Endurance expedition to life.
Amid the flimsy shacks of driftwood and plastic stand new houses, a nearly finished children's nursery and the first timbers of a community workshop.
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He was held above the water "by two long timbers in a V across his chest, like a morsel suspended between two huge chopsticks".
