Word: agrarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Secretary of State Henry Kissinger still maintains that a full resumption of U.S. trade and diplomatic relations with Cuba would be "premature." But as the vice president of the Cuban Agrarian Reform Institute, Solano Pinera, told McGovern: "Don't forget, we need about $3 billion in equipment for our new [farm development] program, and we're ready to buy." With that kind of money piled up only 90 miles off Key West, U.S. businessmen are already putting pressure on Washington...
...sang. Those promises were easier to keep before the American invitation was issued wholesale all over Europe to meet the nation's growing demand for labor. So consider as one candidate for the best of American tunes those earlier years before the Civil War, when the Republic was agrarian. The existence of slavery counts against that time, but in the Republic's first days even many Southerners regarded slavery as "scaffolding" to be removed when the building of nationhood was complete...
Prospective members are driven to the site blindfolded, and once they join, they are threatened with immediate expulsion if they reveal the camp's location. So far, 50 families have signed up; the goal is 300 members, including doctors, dentists, and forestry and agrarian experts to ensure a self-sustaining community. When the end comes, the promoters say gleefully, they will dynamite all approach roads to keep the rest of the ruined world out of this Utopia...
...least 50 years, an achievement that has earned him a roomful of conservation and forestry awards. He shares his findings with anybody who wants them. Every year about 2,000 visitors-university agronomists, Government foresters and ordinary citizens-come to see his farm and meet the adman turned agrarian...
Since 1776 the U.S. has grown from a sliver of colonies along the Atlantic coast into a colossus whose shores are also washed by the Pacific and even the Arctic oceans, from a population of 2.5 million into one nearly 90 times larger, from a simple agrarian society into the world's most technologically sophisticated civilization. How did we get from there to here? How have we changed in our 200 years? And what do these changes portend for our future...