Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Apartments make more efficient use of land than single-family houses do. For a while early in the 1970s, apartment building surged, but now taste is swinging back to the classic detached house. Apartment construction fell even more rapidly than house building during the recession of 1973-75 and has not really recovered; such dwellings account for only 19% of this year's housing starts, v. 39% in 1969. Many Americans share the sentiments of Cheryl Johnson, who with her husband Michael, a Zenith personnel supervisor, is straining the budget to buy a $53,000 house 35 miles north...
What then can be done to cool down housing inflation? Nothing spectacular, as long as Americans remain so enamored of the single-family house. The supply of land within reasonable, or even unreasonable, commuting distance of metropolitan centers cannot readily be increased. Still, some steps could be taken to alleviate, if not end, the trouble...
...tide of ecological refugees from land turning to sand...
More than a third of the earth's land mass is desert or desert-like, and one put of seven people-some 630 million-dwell in these parched regions. In the past, they have been able to scratch out a livelihood-barely. Now, largely through man's own folly, their fragile existence is threatened by a deadly disease of the land called, awkwardly but accurately, "desertification...
...only half a century, an estimated 251,000 sq. mi. (650,000 sq. km.) of farming and grazing land has been swallowed up by the Sahara along that great desert's southern fringe. In one part of India's Rajasthan region, often called the dustiest place in the world, sand cover has increased by about 8% in only 18 years. In the U.S., so much once fertile farm land has been abandoned for lack of water along Interstate 10 between Tucson and Phoenix that dust storms now often sweep the highway...