Word: homesteads
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...slow start. Although the story is interesting, its themes of family conflict and a child’s longing for her absent father are not particularly original. And although the novel should be full of beautiful description, it leaves the reader wishing for a clearer picture of the homestead and the coastline of Portugal on which the story takes place...
Credit-card issuers and their allies claim the measure will usher in a new era of personal responsibility at a time when bankruptcies have swelled 300% since 1980. The differences between the House and Senate versions must still be resolved, but both include limits on the so-called homestead exemption, which in some states protects assets invested in a house from being seized by creditors...
David Anthony Durham draws an impressive moral fable from the history and legends of the American West. Gabriel, 15, has been taken by his mother, a former slave, to Kansas, where his new stepfather is establishing a homestead. The boy is appalled by the chores he sees stretching endlessly ahead of him and eventually manages to run off with a pair of Texas horse dealers who promise to train him in the glamorous cowboy profession. What Gabriel learns quickly enough is that his new mentors are psychopaths embarked on a trail of revenge, rape and murder across the Southwest. When...
...planning is the resistance and political clout of major carriers. Dominant airlines must stop fighting new airport development if the entire system is going to improve." The FAA is on the right track in attempting to transform nearly two dozen former military airfields like El Toro in California and Homestead AFB in Florida into commercial airports, but the process needs a jump-start...
...planning is the resistance and political clout of major carriers. Dominant airlines must stop fighting new airport development if the entire system is going to improve." The FAA is on the right track in attempting to transform nearly two dozen former military airfields like El Toro in California and Homestead A.F.B. in Florida into commercial airports, but the process needs a jump-start...