Word: homesteads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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FRANCES GUMM Cruella (CD: Landspeed) & NEW RADIANT STORM KING Rival Time (CD: Homestead) An hour west of us, two years ago, there were five colleges, a mental institution, a bunch of small towns, and two new bands with a lot in common: a crisp, visceral punch, a fondness for odd rhythms and offbeats, strained singing, and atonality. (Those aren't "chords" Frances Gumm plays; more like "bunches of notes.") As the two new bands started releasing singles and playing out in New England together, they both got better by sounding less alike...
...seemingly irreversible decline. With each farmer who is bought out or squeezed out, "big farming" grows stronger and is better equipped to trample the next one. Of the three groups discussed here, only this one suffers the disadvantage of such a powerful, direct adversary. The dream of the Homestead Act of 1899 has almost disappeared; keeping up with prices fixed by the massive capital buying power of farming conglomerates has become impossible for the family farm...
...still-desolate Homestead Florida marked the anniversary of Hurricane Andrew as North Carolina and Virginia braced for Hurricane Emily...
...time the river reached them on July 13, Nick and Crystal Goedereis had removed everything possible -- livestock, heirlooms, even portable buildings -- from their 150-acre homestead along the rich banks of the Mississippi near Quincy, Illinois. But they still defiantly spent their last night in sleeping bags on the bare living room floor. "We didn't want to leave," says Crystal. "It was our home...
...Pentagon is poised to do what a hurricane could not: permanently shut down HOMESTEAD AIR FORCE BASE in Florida. In a report to be made public March 15, the Defense Department intends to recommend to Congress that Homestead Air Force Base be closed. Across the country, other communities await word on the fate of their military bases, but this closure will be a particularly bitter one. After Hurricane Andrew nearly destroyed the base last August, President Bush pledged that "we will rebuild Homestead Air Force Base." In the current budget-crunching climate, it seems unlikely that promise will be kept...