Word: landed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million and liabilities of $221,000, including $1,500 in unpaid bills, the President computed his net worth as of Jan. 1 at exactly $1,005,910.25. That was up from $795,357.74 a year earlier, chiefly because of the rising value of 2,000 acres of farm land that Carter owns in Sumter and Webster counties in southwestern Georgia. The President had a comfortable income last year of $267,195, including $250,000 in salary and expense money from the Government. His autobiography Why Not the Best? brought him more than $20,000 in royalties, most of which...
...owned by the President, ran $73,572.44 in the red last year, after losing more than $300,000 in 1977. From the thriving family farm, which is 91% owned by Carter, Kirbo made loans of $250,000 to the warehouse and $250,000 to Billy Carter. The farm land that Billy pledged as collateral was promptly assumed by the trust, apparently as a face-saving way to free him from the debt...
...soon as the Pope stepped from his plane he knelt to kiss his native soil, then bussed a little girl in traditional dress who handed him a bouquet. Obviously moved, John Paul spoke of "my native land, to which I remain deeply attached by the roots of my life, of my heart, of my vocation." Poland, he told the group at the airport, "through the course of history has been linked with the Church of Christ and the See of Rome by a special bond of spiritual unity...
Such a historically retrograde energy step is unlikely, partly because some river flows are too weak and environmental opposition is too strong. The objections center mainly on fears that the dams would either silt up rivers or require large reservoirs that destroy land. But with the promise of inexhaustible free power, some utilities are again becoming interested in this old idea...
...Imagine, if you will, a land in which carpetbaggers swarmed not for a decade or so but for millennia and you will come to understand just one aspect of a Poland stomped upon with metronomic tedium and regularity by the French, the Swedes, the Austrians, Prussians, Russians, and possessed by even such greedy incubuses as the Turks. Despoiled and exploited like the South, and like it, a poverty-ridden, agrarian, feudal society, Poland has shared with the Old South one bulwark against its immemorial humiliation, and that is pride. Pride and the recollection of vanished glories. Pride in ancestry...