Word: landed
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...reason she gave is a simple one: 113 Brattle St., which last year housed the mostly Black Commonwealth Day School, is now home to the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, a Cambridge research group. In August, the school announced that it was bowing to opposition from its wealthy Brattle St. neighbors and moving back to Boston after only one year of limited operation in the city...
...Harvard, and Harvard's owned land for hundreds of years," replied Councillor Saundra Graham. "Right in my neighborhood, and all they built was high-rises...
...with a deceptively jovial manner, Stengach wields power on the kolkhoz, answering only to the local party authorities. Sitting in his huge office and guzzling a glass of the natural mineral water famous in the area, Stengach pours out his complaints. Says he: "We thought we would give him land to grow whatever he wanted. We wanted him to bring his own grain, tractors, herbicides and combines, so he could show us what can be done. As it turns out, he's a bezdelnik" -- the Russian word for loafer...
...endorses Gorbachev's proposals for reforming the Soviet agricultural system. New land-rental policies, for example, allow farmers for the first time to share profits with the state, a step that Dull hopes will eventually lead to private ownership. "My sons are enthusiastic about farming, but here the farmers have nothing to be enthusiastic about," he says. "If private farmers are given freedom of choice, they'll develop a productive agriculture that fits their circumstances." A few hundred feet from the Dulls' house are two privately run greenhouses, set up by a five-man rental group that recently entered into...
...wrote to celebrate the land that he loved, and his songs, from White Christmas to There's No Business Like Show Business, touched popular chords through a long history...