Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will go for beauty, clean air, water and landscape." According to Lewis Regenstein, executive vice president of the Fund for Animals, "Carter has taken a stronger stand [on environmental issues] than any other candidate in modern times." In contrast to Ford, Carter favors a federal role in long-range land-use planning, tougher controls on air and water pollution and a bill that would "require reclamation of the land as a condition of strip mining." One of Carter's villains is the U.S. Army's Corps of Engineers, which he claims is far too eager to build dams...
America has been the land of opportunity. During the upswing of the industrial revolution, virtually limitless natural resources, security from military vulnerability, access to capital and to the manpower of Europe and Africa helped to expand its wealth. The opening of the West spurred the pioneering spirit of adventure, assertion and toughness. Would America be what it is without the caliber of its women-not only the work they did but the manner in which they sustained the family? Now they have lit the flame of equal rights, which must be a part of the desire of all weaker groups...
Last week, as bait for a British trade fair, Emett's incomparable Forget-Me-Not computer (it does everything but compute) drew wide-eyed throngs to Wanamaker's in Philadelphia. His Exploratory Moon-Probe Lunacycle MAUD, (Manually Assisted Universal ,Deviator), complete with Astrocat ("Since cats always land on their feet, she is carried to establish which way up gravity is"), is reverently ensconced in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. The Emett Vintage Car of the Future, dedicated to the Spirit of Future Retrogression, is installed at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry...
...were arrested under South Africa's Terrorism Act for crimes ranging from allegedly giving $11.50 to an intermediary--who transferred the funds to persons who wanted to overthrow the South African government--to giving a Land Rover to another such intermediary...
...defendants received sentences ranging from five to seven years, while two other defendants--one allegedly involved in transporting the alleged murderers and the other allegedly involved in the Land Rover deal--were sentenced to death, according to Deffenbaugh...