Word: lande
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...that I could use a donut. I knew they were waiting for me back in Leverett, and I suppose it was the promise of these that perked me up a little. "I need to find 60 cents, however, if I'm ever going to get back to that promised land," I thought, shocking myself with just how quickly I had tired of adventure...
Duehay presided over the creation of the Open Space Acquisition fund for which $2.5 million has been identified to purchase land under threat of development. More recently, the Green Ribbon Open Space Committee was formed by the council in order to establish criteria for acquiring these kinds of property...
...public land, despite the sign proudly announcing that it is "Putnam Park...
...sale, the minimum bid was set at $650,000. Between March 7 and 10, the city tried once more to stop the sale and make a deal with the broker, Valente and the neighborhood. The council spoke with two environmental organizations, the Trust for Public Land and the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs Division of Conversation Services, as it formed a plan of action...
...graduate school's allure has always been the promise of a cushy professorial job and the likelihood of tenure within a few years. But today that career path looks grim. Of the 8,000 students receiving Ph.D.s in the humanities between 1996 and 2000, less than half will land full-time "tenure track" jobs. Increasingly, colleges farm out teaching to part-time instructors, who earn skimpy salaries and rarely get benefits. So, many graduate students figure, they need to haggle for all they can get now--and they think Big Labor (including the U.A.W. and the American Federation of Teachers...