Word: land
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...achievement or understand how it came about. Under Deng Xiaoping's regime, the Chinese have become the most efficient farmers in the world in terms of output per acre. They feed more than a billion people, or 22% of the globe's population, on only 7% of its arable land...
...Central American Foreign Minister defended his nation's role in the Nicaraguan civil war as members of the audience questioned him about his country's allowing the contras to use Honduran land as a base for attack against the Sandinista government of Nicaragua...
Though this may sound like Graham Greene land, Moore does not often linger over moral debates or digressions. Within a few pages of the novel's opening, Bem has been attacked by would-be assassins, abducted by men who claim to be protecting him and, having made his escape, reduced to the status of a fugitive in rags who fears for his life and does not know where he will be safe. As he descends into the underworld, haunted by undercover agents and herded from truck to shadowy truck, the highest cleric in the land finds himself in touch...
...past 15 years, the Oests have lived in the Valdez Valley on three acres of land that Nora inherited from her father, land he acquired by trading a La Salle automobile to his Uncle Pedro, who needed it to get to Wyoming...
...takeover in May, Rabuka agreed to hand over power to a council of advisers headed by the Governor-General. But tensions remained high, as militant Fijians repeatedly attacked ethnic Indians and burned their shops. Few observers expected Rabuka's latest move to restore tranquillity to the once idyllic land...