Word: move
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...referendum held this month, Toevs' commission devised an unusual plan to keep the landscape unchanged. It proposed a new .5% sales tax that would raise $3 million per year to fund the purchase of nearby farming and grazing lands. The move aroused spirited opposition. Farmers who feared being dispossessed and individuals concerned about rising housing costs argued that the new legislation would give too much power to the county commissioners, interfere with the right of towns to expand, and add to already excessive taxation. In the end, they won; the proposal was defeated...
...price. Then Jacobs, using a combination of home remedies and equine psychoanalysis, would turn the beast into a champion. If, for instance, Jacobs thought a horse simply needed peace and quiet, he would remove him to a dark, remote stall. If a horse wouldn't eat, Jacobs would move him next door to a horse that ate like one, chop a hole in the wall so the hunger striker would observe the mad gluttony in the next stall and, sure enough, the power of suggestion usually worked. Once Jacobs determined from what he felt was a pained expression...
Susan Ware, the graduate student observer on the Faculty Committee, said yesterday the proposal is "a good way to move forward on women's studies," adding that everyone on the student committee, "is pretty pleased...
While the Pomeranians can move away from the region, there is no quick cure for a dying ecosystem that took thousands of years to create. The Brazilian government has offered fiscal incentives for reforestation of the area, but profit-hungry companies respond by planting Australian eucalyptus and American pine, trees better suited for making a quick buck than for restoring an original habitat. Says Ruschi: "There are laws prohibiting the killing of rare species, but there are no laws preventing the destruction of the whole forest." Environmentalists are calling for conservation, but for many Brazilians, economic development remains...
...Move it, girl. Get it out front...