Word: lot
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Costly Dump. Many Vermonters would not mind seeing him-and about 100 other developers in Windham County-leave tomorrow. True, the real estate men have helped to create a broadened tax base and a lot of construction activity that will doubtless benefit the state's economy. But they have also trapped the county's towns of Stratton, Wilmington, Dover, Winhall and Guilford in a vicious cycle that might make a hardened Yankee farmer weep...
...homes. They, in turn, attracted developers, who quickly snapped up big parcels of land. So far, subdividers have built 4,216 vacation houses; by 1974 they plan to construct another 5,000. Naturally, land prices and property taxes have soared. In 1967, the owner of a 55-acre wood lot in Guilford paid $24 in annual taxes; today he pays $585. As a result, some residents can no longer afford to live in Windham County, and have put their farms up for sale. As more developers buy them, the lovely open countryside becomes, in Vermont's Governor Deane...
...answers were apparently quite revealing. "We've got a lot of swinging dollies on our books who'll be only too delighted to welcome the Americans with open arms," boasted the managing director. Unwisely, as it turned...
...main reasons that I smoked, I think, and because I really wanted to try it. It was a nice thing. I probably smoked about 20 or 30 times that school year. Pretty soon about 85% of the kids smoked. It got to be a really statusy thing. A lot of the kids who smoked would come and tell you when they were stoned just to impress you. The school kind of overlooked all the grass smoking...
...stopped taking ground-up seeds, though, because once I took them be fore a vacation and had a bad trip [frightening experience]. I had to take a six-hour bus ride and then a plane. I took about 550 seeds just before the bus left. A lot of kids from school on the bus were stoned too. Some had grass and one guy drank two bottles of cough syrup. And it was really good for about an hour but then I started to freak. I felt like jumping off the bus. I just had to move. There were pine trees...