Word: landed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alaskans will decide whether the state should give 30 million acres of land to residents. Under the proposition, 40 acres would go to those who have lived in Alaska for three years, 80 acres for five years' residence and 160 acres for a decade or more...
Aside from the question of whether women are capable of serving as equals in the armed forces, much of the male uneasiness about women soldiers is obviously based on sex. And women naturally share some of that uneasiness. "Men get girl crazy on land," says Airman Suzanne Gurule. "Can you imagine how much worse that's going to be on board ship?" Indeed, the idea of women on sea duty worries a number of sailors' wives...
...Billie Sol Estes was paroled from a federal prison after serving six years for amassing a $ 150 million business empire through fraudulent land deals and nonexistent fertilizer tanks. He went to work in fundamentalist Abilene, Texas, as an overseer on his brother's cattle ranch and as a truck dispatcher for a petroleum company. Estes regularly assured his parole officer that, as required by the terms of his release, he was abstaining from business deals. He was happily working as a manual laborer, he said, and had "even washed trucks and fixed flats...
...Muslims can pray together. And now that Israel has agreed in principle to withdraw, Egyptian planners are busy drawing up ambitious schemes for transforming the Sinai into a rich national asset. In addition to oil exploration, mining and tourism, the government has plans for reclaiming 700,000 acres of land in the northwestern Sinai by piping in water from the Nile...
...Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie...