Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Forty-one years of control over Nicaragua have netted for the Somoza family one of the largest single fortunes in the world. Conservative estimates place the family's assets between $400 and $600 million. According to the London Economist, General Somoza owns at least one-fifth of the arable land in Nicaragua and runs more than 40 companies. Very few commercial transactions take place in Nicaragua that do not, directly or indirectly, involve one of the Somozas. U.S. corporations have long learned to pay their dues; the Harvard Business School's Nicaraguan branch recently presented the dictator with an honorary...
Indeed, the politicians support Palau. The poverty and suffering they don't care to relieve make them appear to be scoundrels. But Palau makes them respectable, and he comes cheaper than land reform or democracy...
Specialists in consumer behavior offer no magic answers. Psychology Professor Richard Foxx of the University of Mary land has found that "if people are rewarded for reducing their driving, they will do it." Rewards? Money prizes of $10 and $15 were given to students who succeeded in logging less driving mileage during Foxx's experimental study. Maybe large organizations could offer bonus vacations as rewards to promote conservation, Foxx suggests...
...growing and making of wines can be a hobby for some. For the most part, however, the new challengers are businessmen who figure on a solid cash return on their liquid investment. Regardless of the cost of the land, it may take at least $1,300 an acre to plant the good vines-though the return can be bountiful: around 3,000 bottles. The further cost of fertilizing, weeding, spraying, pruning, picking, vinification and bottling makes wine a costly enterprise. Then add the investment in sophisticated equipment: a single stainless-steel 1,000-gal. vat can soak the vintner...
...home-coming of the pilgrims is vociferously celebrated. Some families light up the streets and houses with colored bulbs and offer sherbet and sweet drinks to visitors. Friends and relatives and neighbors call on the pilgrims to congratulate them on their trip to the Blessed Land and give them the well-deserved title of "haaj" (male pilgrim) and "haaja" (female pilgrim). Henceforth this title precedes their names, lending them a religious distinction and an honored social status...