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lumber

verb as in walk heavily, clumsily

verb as in burden

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Earlier this month, new 25% tariffs on lumber, upholstered furniture and kitchen cabinets went into effect.

If Europe can’t concentrate spending, its startups will struggle to grow or shake up the continent’s lumbering military sector as U.S. startups are doing in Washington, say investors and founders.

Separately, he has imposed levies on Canadian automobiles, steel, aluminum and lumber products as part of global tariff actions meant to bolster U.S. national security.

Going up in the western Cuban province of Pinar del Rio, where poverty was widespread, he played with bats his father Liban, a carpenter, fashioned from scrap lumber.

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Some economists say the furniture and lumber tariffs, on their own, are unlikely to spell disaster for builders and single-handedly tank the home building market.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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