Word: landed
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There are still many gaps in scientific understanding of the complex desert ecology. But there has been no shortage of ideas for saving productive land. Using its oil wealth to good advantage, Saudi Arabia has planted some 10 million tamarisk, acacia and eucalyptus trees to help keep the dunes from overwhelming its al-Hasa oasis near Hofuf. Taking a cue from the cattle drives of the old American West, seven Sahel nations are involved in a scheme, dubbed Solar, that would allow nomads to continue to raise cattle on marginal Sahelian rangeland. But when it comes time for fattening before...
...deserts' cancerous growth came to worldwide attention in the early 1970s with the great drought and famine in Africa's Sahel, the band of impoverished land across the Sahara's southern flank. More than 100,000 people perished before the rains finally came in 1974, and that was not the end of the tragedy. Hundreds of thousands of tribesmen remain in camps, and the desert's encroachment has not halted. Senegal told the U.N. meeting that it feared its coastal capital, Dakar, would soon be engulfed...
...method in which that government was overthrown. Allende was elected by a popular vote on a platform calling for a peaceful transition to socialism. During its three years in power, the Popular Unity government--a coalition of Chile's leftwing groups--nationalized the country's coppper mines, gave the land of absentee landowners to the farmers who worked it, and took the first steps toward enforcing a more equitable distribution of income...
More than 100 residents of the Observatory Hill area, however, submitted a petition to the Cambridge Planning Board last Tuesday to down-zone the block of land owned by the University on that site. Although the zoning change, if it is passed, will not affect Radcliffe's plans for the athletic facility in the long run, the process of changing the zoning map may delay the granting of a building permit, Francis H. Duehay '55 said yesterday...
...land is downzoned from a C-1, C-2 to a residential B classification, Harvard will be left with less than one seventh of the building space it has now. The Planning Board is expected to make its recommendation to the City Council, the only governing body with the legal power to make a change in the zoning map, in the coming week...