Word: soils
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Once the contras are firmly established on Nicaraguan soil, Washington might recognize them as a provisional government-in-arms. Such a scenario, which would require the U.S. to break diplomatic relations with Nicaragua, has been rumored for the past two years. But the Sandinistas apparently are growing more worried. Two weeks ago Carlos Tunnermann, the capable Nicaraguan Ambassador to Washington, gave up that post to become his country's representative to the Organization of American States. Says one U.S. official: "They don't want to lose him, in case the embassy here gets shut down...
...begun three generations ago, when Ellis Island teemed with immigrants. A few of them had gone west -- about 100 miles west (and north) of Manhattan -- to try farming Sullivan County, N.Y.'s inhospitable soil. Vegetables would not grow there, but debts did, and the farmers were obliged to take in boarders. Soon the old houses became inns, sometimes with names that reflected a yearning for assimilation. The splendiferous Nevele is eleven spelled backward, in honor of a group of local visitors. Ratner's place had large Rs in the wrought-iron fencing. The owner called it the Raleigh...
...Meet the Press last week, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger spoke of the need for on-site inspection of weapons-production facilities. "When you get in something serious in the way of agreement," he said, "you have to have the ability to go on each other's soil, to look in factories and look at gun sites...
...Grace report is being criticized for its methodology, said Cambridge City Councilor Alice K. Wolf. "Their experiments with soil samples are questionable because they mixed all the soils together, then studied them, which may have diluted the contaminents, and changed the data," she said...
...There is a lot of concern in the community," said Wolf, "because contamination can affect the ground water and the soil itself, and once construction on a piece of property begins, it blows around and spreads to surrounding neighborhoods also...