Word: landed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Todo es mejor" ("Everything is better"), says one old man, dismissing my question about life after the revolution with a wave of his knarled hand. For much of this century he tilled the land, and, like many Cubans, was able to work only sporadically. Now he is a member of the self-contained rural cooperative Jibacoa, a dairy farm outside Havana with its own shops, schools, and health care facilities. Farmers who decide to join these rural communities receive payment for the sale of their farms and move to the state farms, where they are paid by the state...
...Hair's was the third such protest within a week. Birth control and abortion advocate William Baird filed suit in the U.S. District Court to prevent the use of public funds and land for the religious ceremonies. Also, two protestant ministers joined representatives from the Civil Liberties Union at a City Council hearing to protest the use of public funds for the papal mass on the Boston Common October...
...there are contradictions. When Salonen and Barry first informed Alper of their presence in Gloucester, they assured the fire-and-brimstone mayor that Tong Il--the former corporate name of International Seafoods--did not plan to buy property within Gloucester. But Moon purchased waterfront land, and gradually, Tong Il set up shop in Gloucester. ("Tong Il" was changed to "International Seafoods" in 1976, because of "terrible PR," the church's director for marketing services says "Tong Il" is also the name of Moon's Korean corporation which manufactures arms and weapons at an estimated annual profit of $2 million...
Eliav, former secretary-general of the Israeli Labour Party and later chairman of the "Sheli" or peace movement, states his solution to the Palestinian question in simple terms: "I am for halfing the loaf," he says. "We have all the loaf now--we should give the Palestinians their land and let them determine what they want, once they have recognized the state of Israel and agreed to live side by side...
...land Harvard owns that worries people, Brewer says. Instead, he points out, there is more tension surrounding what the University plans to do with land is acquires. Residents are worried that their Harvard-owned apartments may someday turn into offices, basketball courts or DNA labs...