Word: landed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city council last night also granted preliminary approval to the city's purchase of the former Riverside Press site, on the corner of Memorial Drive and River St., for $1.6 million. The land will be used for recreational purposes...
Today, the six families do not spend much time together, outside their weekly meetings. But their interaction is more than a peaceful rural California co-existence. They lease the land together, raise the money for the immense taxes together and share a belief in the dignity of their dirty nails and muddy shoes. They share a commitment to their land, although their garlic patches and herb gardens are now cultivated separately. They have signed a pact promising that if a family leaves the valley it will sell its home for only half of what it cost to build. If they...
...expectation that environmentalists will produce less resistance to the mining and burning of coal. But in 20 years, when the sky is noticeably darker from soot created by coal plants, the cancer rate of people living in the cities is rising from breathing the coal wastes and the land is becoming scarred from coast to coast by strip mining, what will our alternatives be then? When President Carter warned that Americans would have to sacrifice, I do not think he meant us, but rather our children...
...Bower sees it, the biggest roadblock to increasing production is Government price-control policy that "discourages the formation of the capital necessary to expand supplies, inhibits sensible planning and encourages wasteful consumption." Roadblock No. 2: Endless delays in the leasing of federal oil land, notably on the outer continental shelf, less than 5% of which has been let to oil explorers. Roadblock No. 3: The day-today uncertainty of Government regulation. State and federal rules are likely to change as often as every six months, making it virtually impossible to plan for long-term capital investments. Roadblock No. 4: Congressional...
...parasite's coating. That knowledge could perhaps be used to fashion an effective vaccine or more potent drugs against sleeping sickness. If Hirumi or any other scientist were to realize that long-sought goal, it could open up millions of acres of fertile, yet largely idle land in Central Africa to people and their livestock...