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    :: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 ::

    The Defense Department Sent Your House to Iraq by Timothy D. Terrell
    Some U.S. home builders are facing one of the many disagreeable side-effects of the military occupation of Iraq—higher costs of lumber. In a lumber market where shortages were already appearing, the Defense Logistics Agency suddenly ordered more than 20 million square-feet of plywood sheeting for construction in Iraq. Markets for plywood and its substitutes reacted strongly.
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