Word: landed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is, of course, a serious side to New Hampshire sheep breeding. A century ago, about 80% of the land was open pasture. Half a million sheep grazed New Hampshire's rocky hillsides. But when the Western prairies opened up it was possible to raise flocks of 20,000 or more animals. The New England industry went into a decline. Roughly a decade ago, when the thirst for things natural took hold in protest against the increasingly plastic quality of American life, sheep began making a comeback. Today there are roughly 6,000 sheep in New Hampshire mostly...
...mission over there--"simply to annihilate"--also began to bother him. "We'd take an area and a few months later go back and take the same piece of land again." And it was hot, hotter than the other wars, and tougher. He had contracted malaria and suffered a concussion from a grenade. "I wanted to live," he says matter-of-factly...
...smokes treated dope. The University, however, had to weigh its concern for student health against the state's contention that the dope testing would be illegal, and held off from full cooperation with the city. "There is a question of violating the law--we're in marijuana never-never land on this one." University Counsel Dan Steiner '54 admitted...
...provide sites for multi-family housing. In addition, the investigation turned up different accounting systems for all the properties which differed substantially from the rest of the University's accounting systems, Zeckhouser says. In real estate management, the books include complicated figures for overhead pricing, marketing, depreciation of land values and maintenance expenses. According to Zeckhouser and Wyatt, the Corporation will facilitate financial management of properties now conducted through Harvard's own treasurer's office. Thomas O'Brien, Harvard's financial vice president, agrees with this assessment and hopes that the corporation will enable Harvard "to achieve a decent return...
...might attract specialists to Harvard. Four years ago, the University established the Harvard Management Company, a professional firm created exclusively to manage Harvard's investment portfolio. Officials say the new Real Estate Corporation will be organized along roughly similar lines, and hope it will have comparable success in the land business...