Word: landed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THIS mistrust is not ill-placed, as past U.S. intervention indicates. Nicaragua is attacked presumably for its socialist ideology of land expropriation; Cuba, for its willingness to fight foreign wars; Peru, for its refusal to strangle itself through debt payments. North American imperialist attitudes of the last two decades have shifted to the ideological and economic level...
...Martha took to telephoning reporters and was forcibly sedated. Rita Jenrette, whose husband John was convicted for taking bribes in Abscam, used her 15 minutes of celebrity to pose in Playboy, reveal that she and John had known each other very well on the steps of the Capitol and land a role in Hollywood's Zombie Island Massacre...
Jordan's stability is crucial to countries on both sides of the Arab-Israeli dispute. The King has brought in Field Marshal Sharif Zaid bin Shaker to oversee preparations for parliamentary elections in the near future, which should bring a degree of democracy to a largely authoritarian land. But whatever path the new government takes, the people face several more years of austerity. "Sooner or later, Jordanians will have to adjust to a lower standard of living," admitted a top adviser to the King. "There's no other...
...golf courses to meet demand. The National Golf Foundation estimates that 4,000 new courses would have to be built in the next decade to meet the crush. But high real estate and development costs kept the number of new courses to 211 last year. On average, once the land is bought, it takes $4 million to $5 million more to build a course. Shortages are most severe in Southern California and in the Northeast. Most golf-course development over the past few years has been tied to residential communities, where well-maintained links can double the value of nearby...
...told you how I feel about going across this country, which we've done to some degree in this job. You look down and just think about the wonder of our land, particularly after you've had visits from people from abroad. You think of the tremendous diversity of our country, its strength, its decency. It's a pride that you take every time. I do every time I go outside...