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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tennis team travels to the land of Spiro T. Agnew, the Chesapeake crab and the Baltimore oriole this weekend for a pair of key early-season matches that may be a first step in upgrading the "good-but-not-great" label the Crimson has worn the last two years...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: 6-3 Racquetmen in Maryland for Key Matches Against Midshipmen and Talented Terrapins | 4/6/1979 | See Source »

...would be naive to assume that if solar and wind energy systems were installed on the rooftops of the land the energy crunch would magically go away. But assuming that nuclear plants will solve the problem is just as naive, and perhaps disastrously so. If a comprehensive government program to encourage installment of solar heating devices--along the lines of the home insulation tax rebate--were to result in only a 5 per cent decrease in the overall demand for oil it would be well worth the effort since U.S. oil supplies are currently only 2.5 per cent below demand...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: In Search of the Sun | 4/6/1979 | See Source »

Most of our graduates take jobs in fields that have long been at the heart of the profession: housing, transportation, community development, environment, land use, regional development. Others go into less traditional planning areas such as health planning. And a number of our graduates bring their planning skills to non-traditional jobs as policy and budget analysts and program managers. For example, four members of this year's graduating class have just been named Presidential Management Interns in a national competition to identify able young people for a "fast-track" in the federal civil service. Society clearly benefits from having...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Planners React | 4/5/1979 | See Source »

Stating that one of the major barriers to agricultural development is China's "fixed land endowment"--limited amounts of poor land--Perkins said China is more advanced than other underdeveloped countries...

Author: By Dayna L. Cunningham, | Title: China's Food Production Goals Are Impractical, Experts Say | 4/4/1979 | See Source »

...Chinese have already begun to use improved seeds and fertilizers, and now need new irrigation systems and land conservation techniques, he said. Such large-scale change will take many years, he added...

Author: By Dayna L. Cunningham, | Title: China's Food Production Goals Are Impractical, Experts Say | 4/4/1979 | See Source »

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