Word: land
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nowhere Land' Home Field Advantage: The long trip to Ithaca January 16, on the heels of Harvard's 64-57 victory over Columbia, played a major factor in the Crimson's unimpressive, 75-50 loss to Cornell...
...have been some of the main cheerleaders of the rioting, blaring their call to resistance from loudspeakers attached to mosques in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. They substitute Islamic slogans for the old P.L.O. themes, chanting "Allah helps those who help themselves" or "Palestine is our Holy Land." Their call to the barricades is made more effective by Islam's reverence for martyrdom. For now, the voice of Islam speaks from a small base, with the various local groups like Jihadi Islami and Mujama Islami claiming at most a few thousand members. But they have served...
Myth: Jessica Lange in Country symbolizes Iowa farm families' being driven off the land they love...
...Wood painting. Gone is the era when John Gunther could confidently declare in Inside U.S.A., published in 1947, "Corn is everything in Iowa." The state is still the nation's leading producer of corn and hogs, but these days only 10% of the labor force continue to work the land. "Many people in Iowa have never been on a farm," says Political Scientist James Hutter of Iowa State University. "I imagine that fewer than half of my students have spent more than a day on a farm...
...farm crisis was indeed real, but current problems are not nearly so dire as movie images would suggest. During the first half of the decade, Iowa farmers were devastated by high interest rates, falling commodity prices and a collapse in land prices, their primary collateral for loans to pay for equipment and seed. But then came a costly federal bailout: the $28 billion 1985 farm bill. Aided by a falling dollar that spurred agricultural exports, farm income soared by 30% between mid-1986 and mid-1987. "Farmers are making strides," concedes Neil Harl, a professor of agriculture at Iowa State...