Word: soiling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Soil, Land and the Human Environment." Nope, not offered this year...
...becoming the profit base of influential commercial entrepeneurs--traditional landed elites, city-based agricultural speculators, and foreign corporations." Studies show that large landholders who use traditional labor-intensive techniques tend to be much less efficient than their smaller counterparts, who draw as much as possible out of the soil. Large landowners who mechanize their holdings force peasants off the land, creating a new army of unemployed on the edges of cities. Agricultural speculators buy up the land of small farmers to plant crops they think will receive high prices the next season; when there is a glut, they stop planting...
...cultivated). Though wild ginseng accounts for only 26% of U.S. production, it commands much higher prices than the cultivated variety because it is thought to be more potent. The U.S. cultivated ginseng industry is centered in Marathon County in central Wisconsin, which happens to have the welldrained, acidic soil ideal for growing ginseng. There, an estimated 65 farmers grow about 95% of cultivated U.S. ginseng...
...Cairo last March, the Palestine National Council, composed of leaders of organizations representing 3.2 million Palestinians scattered around the world, voted to establish an independent state on whatever portions of the "national soil" could be liberated from Israel-meaning, essentially, the West Bank and Gaza. Then only the rejectionists continued to hold out for a war to the end with the Israelis. Acknowledging a radical change from that position last week, one of the rejectionists explained: "We feel this is the time for the Palestinians to stand together...
Incandescent lava will cover our swamps, our reeking cities, our fields, our flowering hills; it will destroy the contours of that soil we persist in calling "ours...