Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world's attention was only drawn to desertification [Sept. 12] in the early 1970s? Where was the world in 1960, when botanists warned the National Science Foundation Academic Year Institute that the earth had already lost 20% of its arable land in a century due to man's activity...
...pleased to tell you and the sophisticated French philosophers, with their sophisticated language, that Marx is not dead at all. I think he is very much alive all over this land, and he doesn't have time even to take a nap here...
...everyone is Tutillated by the city's lighthearted approach. Especially not Jake DiMaggio. His acquaintance with Egyptian authorities (through his construction company's work there) helped land the exhibit for New Orleans. Now he is red-faced over the blue street and the sideshows. "The civic and cultural leaders are ridiculing the Egyptian deity," he complains. "Why can't we do something with a little class...
...compromise on another issue raised by Vance: the Jewish settlements in the occupied territories. The Foreign Minister rejected the American judgment that these settlements are obstacles to a peace agreement. Said he: "For us it is a matter of principle, of Jews being allowed to live anywhere in Eretz [Land of] Israel." Dayan added that his government would try not to be "provocative" about the settlements and insisted that Premier Menachem Begin was merely carrying out a policy created by previous Labor governments...
Harvard-owned land is tax-exempt, as is any land a university owns. But Harvard officials say the University pays more than $2 million to the city in the form of required and voluntary payments...