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Word: acree (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week Aho's group went ahead on its own and dedicated a 14-acre clearing near Washington's Mount Rainier as a Spacecraft Protective Landing Area for the Advancement of Science and Humanities (SPLAASH). The saucer enthusiasts plan to ask the Pentagon not to attack aliens who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Crash Pad | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

The heady plunge into the pot agribusiness began in 1973, when Oregon's legislature reduced the penalty for possession of less than an ounce of the weed to no jail sentence and a maximum $100 fine. Bookstores soon reported a brisk trade in manuals like The Complete Guide to Growing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where the Grass is Greener | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

Last year Assmus flew over the state's backwoods to check out reports of clandestine pot farms. "We saw a whole lot more than we ever suspected," he recalls, flipping through color photos of half-acre patches that pock the hillsides. "It's all over the place." To escape detection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where the Grass is Greener | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

When Happy Rockefeller decided to toss a party for 400 or so close friends, she knew just the spot: Pocantico Hills, the family's 3,000-acre estate overlooking the Hudson near Tarrytown, N.Y. It was at the stone-walled residence that folks such as Pierre Trudeau, Henry Kissinger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 12, 1978 | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

To find the answers, Focks will set up in New Orleans two 40-hectare (100-acre) sites, one as a control and one for experimentation. During this summer, he will release in the test area about 1,000 female Toxorhynchites, which will lay eggs that hatch into predatory larvae. Because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Good Mosquito | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

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