Word: homestead
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...Crimson reported on May 25 that "after weeks of speculation and worry," administrators had decided to save the 120-year-old homestead...
CARVER LIKES TO NOTE THAT HE WAS BORN on Friday the 13th, in October 1944, six years after his parents settled in the Big Smoky Valley. The family homestead became a small town, Carver Station--known locally as Carvers--but otherwise the valley looks the way it did a half-century ago. He now raises 100 head of cattle on about 860 acres of his own land--making him possibly the only rancher in the county movement without a direct financial stake in how federal land gets managed...
...time our Republicans in Congress get through, Alaska and the rest of the U.S. will look the same as Borneo and Siberia. Then when bottom-line greed is finished, there will be enough unemployed, motivated citizens to homestead all those square miles and spend their lives pulling up stumps. EUGENE W. FOOTE Ocean Grove, New Jersey...
...This is not your corner garden shop anymore. The paths between the perennials are paved, so high heels will not plunge into the mud. There is Italian soda available at the door, and tarragon-turkey sandwiches on pita bread. "Today retailing is theater," says Don Riddle Jr., president of Homestead Gardens in Maryland, whose $10 million in revenues last year were up 21% from the year before. Homestead sold $60,000 worth of orchids last year alone, triple the amount from the year before. Among this year's favorites are tropical patio plants, a 4-ft.-high golden-daisy...
More scouts are expected as the April 25 season opener approaches, and more of the job seekers will descend upon Homestead as clubs pass on players they would have ordinarily kept. Baseball may be back, but it's not baseball as usual. Last week the Montreal Expos, who had the best team-and smallest payroll-in baseball when the strike hit on Aug. 12, virtually gave away centerfielder Marquis Grissom, reliever John Wetteland and starter Ken Hill because management didn't want to pay them...