Word: outright
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...boom is somewhat paradoxically drawing strength from a new, more socially responsible public attitude toward land. States and localities are imposing stricter zoning laws and environmental standards, punitive taxes on speculators, even some outright bans on development (see story page 94). The new moves are long overdue, but they have the side effect of making land development ever costlier, reducing the supply of what real estate men call "buildable" land...
OPEN SPACE must be set aside and, wherever possible, made available for public use and enjoyment. Some areas are of particular value: coastal dunes that protect the shore front, forests that reduce floods, wetlands that start biological food chains. In addition to outright purchase or donation, there are many ways to preserve these areas. Towns can tax themselves to buy "greenbelts," or they can buy "easements"-the rights to keep property from being developed without actually buying the property itself...
...countries, where birth rates are highest, food supplies scantiest and famine as close as the next crop failure. Last year, according to the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization, farm output in 42 developing nations actually dropped by 1%. As a result, some of these countries now face outright starvation. Until the developing world can learn to tap its own fast-growing potential-and curb its runaway population growth -demand on farmers in the U.S. and other big food-growing countries will remain strong...
...wheat really would move abroad. A few officials are more sympathetic to the idea of calling a world commodity conference to work out international methods of controlling the speculative buying that has helped to rocket prices upward. That seems a good idea, but the Administration is opposed to outright allocation of scarce foods and raw materials between countries, and international panic buying may be unstoppable without that...
...Teddy Roosevelt imposed a ban on coal mining in Alaska to help preserve its natural grandeur, many Alaskans have harbored a deep resentment against the "meddling outsider"-especially the Federal Government in Washington, D.C., and "anti-development" conservationists. The recent oil-pipeline controversy, in particular, has turned resentment into outright antagonism and given new impetus to a budding secessionist movement...