Word: lande
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...reputed mobsters and the millionaire liquor dealer suspected ot engineering Bolles's murder. In contrast, the state's new governor, 40-year-old Bruce Babbitt, is by almost all accounts serious about putting a stop to Arizona crime, and the recent prosecution of the state's two most notorious land fraud artists, Ned Warren, Sr. and Howard Woodall, has demonstrated Arizona's concern about its national reputation as a haven for every con artist and retired mobster in the country...
...fact land prices have been climbing steeply, but almost wholly because of demand by Americans. While farmers justifiably complain that the price increase has kicked up their property taxes, it has also added much to their property values, enhancing their estates. For farmers to complain about that is as illogical as homeowners carping because outsiders are moving in and bidding up land and housing values in their neighborhoods...
Meanwhile, many farmers share the opinion of one weather-grizzled Georgia farmer: "Let's don't let them get by with buying our land, but don't stop it yet, not until I can sell mine." Adds William Wisenbaker, who farms several hundred acre near Lake Park, Ga.: "If any of them fellas with long robes come around, I'm gonna give them a wide berth. That is, unless they're carrying so much money I can't turn them down...
...philosophy of export or die. Now, with its trade deficit so enormous, the U.S. should adopt such a philosophy. "But a large body of American industry is still very provincial," says Lyet. "The American businessman, who has a tremendous domestic market, is often not attracted to the never-never land of foreign markets...
...here." But you just can't rob a bunch of 14 and 15 year old girls of their team spirit; after Saturday night's finals, for instance, the flagwaving American youngsters blurted out, "Give me a "U", Gimme an "S", Gimme an "A"; Whattaya got? United States of America, Land of the Free, Home of the Brave!!!" "It sure would have been nice if they were here." sure would have been nice if they were here." said the 14-year-old Woodhead, who swam in the meet for the Riverside. Calif. Aquatic Association despite her suspension, after the Germans racked...