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...become so many bomb craters. And I couldn't anymore because they had been sown with antipersonnel bombs some hadn't vet exploited. Sometimes an animal would kick one and it would blow up... But my father felt for his animals. He slept in the village and tried to plow early in the morning. He was afraid we would all die of starvation in the coming year at he didn't farm. When the sun came up he would retire a hole...
...other customers laughed when Mary Anna Anderson tried to rent a Rototiller so she could plow her rock-filled yard and plant grass around her house in Van Nuys, Calif. Only men can rent power equipment, a salesman for Northridge Equipment Rentals told her curtly and without explanation. Anderson, 28, who had just graduated from Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco but had not yet been admitted to the bar, said that as soon as she was a full-fledged lawyer she would sue. Two months ago she was and she did. Filing her complaint in Van Nuys...
Even with an accompanying analytic supplement, the first of its kind, the report is difficult for the layman to plow through, much less understand. But it suggests a number of developments important not only to the University's financial outlook, but also to life at Harvard in general...
Despite those fears, the hard fact remained that Ireland outside the EEC would have to "plow the lonely furrow of the Atlantic," as one pro-Marketeer put it. Nearly two-thirds of Irish exports go to Britain, and they would face a prohibitive tariff wall if that country, as is now expected, joined the EEC. Irishmen stand to benefit from higher Continental prices for their beef and lamb, and from an influx of industries, mostly American, seeking a European base. More than 200 companies indicated that they would invest in Ireland if the referendum was favorable...
...They would rather see a Frenchman get the contracts than some American giant," he says. Breguet also got a lift from French tax laws: to stimulate construction, the government has cut the corporate tax rate for new builders from 50% to 15% for their first seven years, provided they plow back their profits. Breguet formed his own construction outfit and builds only three to five models per project, keeping costs low by standardizing room layouts and construction materials...