Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week castigated as "parties of the extreme right"-would have alienated his own party's rank and file. Meanwhile, the Socialists had the unenviable task of trying to right the wrongs of a series of post-revolutionary leftist, military-led governments. That meant returning to former owners land and factories illegally seized after the 1974 revolutions, borrowing money from the West and pleading for private investment...
...accounts for two-thirds of the total platinum production in the Western world. It is also rich in asbestos, granite, vanadium, chromium and manganese. By 1979 the homeland should be receiving direct mining revenues of about $30 million a year. But only 10% of BophuthaTswana's total land area is arable, and much of that is covered with scrub brush...
...week before Christmas, and all through the land Americans are planning the year's last feast. Herewith a startling report from a Colonial ghostwriter, who surfaces annually from a Jamestown graveyard to survey the culinary scene...
...cookin, hostesses, bureaucrats, housewives ?and fathers with small children in tow?form long lines as early as 8 a.m. for the twice-weekly sales of the Montgomery Farm Woman's Cooperative Market in Bethesda, Md., all of whose members must own at least three acres of productive land. Its most prized delicacies include whipped strawberry cream cheese and home made bratwurst...
...result, small investors have pulled out of the market by the millions to put their money into bonds, land, coins, wine-anything that is either tangible or seems less risky than shares. Trading consists mostly of transactions between the big institutions: mutual funds, pension funds, bank trust departments. And managers of the pension funds, who invest more than $100 billion, have a special reason for worry: Congress in 1974 passed a law permitting receivers of pensions to sue managers of the funds for poor investment performance. Fearful fund managers have adopted a supercautious strategy, setting themselves the modest goal...