Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FRANCE. Since 1977 some capital gains have been taxed, but France has a wide variety of exemptions - loopholes to critics - including capital gains from any source that do not exceed $4,600 a year and from the sale of a principal residence and of farm land...
...this month, when a lowly antitank gunner, Corporal Kwon Chong Hun, 20, defected to Seoul from North Korea, he was celebrated as an "antiCommunist gladiator" and given the equivalent of $20,000. Seoul also provided him with free housing and his choice of a college scholarship or free farm land. He received several job offers. An association of Seoul businessmen whose ancestors came from Kwon's home province is trying to find him a bride. Observes Kwon, understandably: "My decision to defect has not been a mistake...
...lush, the cinematography beautiful. Scenes of the pyramids, the Sphinx and the desert sands take turns with the blues of the sky and river, the green palms and the multi-colored chaos of the crowded street bazaars. The film captures well the contrast between the eternal mysterious Egyptian land, and the seemy, passionate turmoil of the cruisers, who float majestically down the Nile while plotting their little intrigues. Director of photography Jack Cardiff also filmed "Caesar and Cleopatra" and he really knows the turf...
...would be quite another issue if our technology as it is interpreted today made use of natural resources, restoring them to the environment in a way which would not disturb existing ecocycles, food chains, and land. But it does not. The only environmental compromise made by nuclear power advocates (as well as industrialists in general) is that they will do their job with "minimal damage to the environment", as Gov. William Milliken of Michigan recently put it. This half-hearted promise is simply not enough of a commitment, for two reasons...
...commitment to the land ethic which Leopold, Rachel Carson and modern environmentalists recognized asks that we recognize ourselves as part of the land, not as master...