Word: use
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Paul's will use the proceeds of the land sale to build a new student center, chapel and choir school next to the church on the corner of Mt. Auburn St. and Arrow St., said Julie A. Reardon '90, president of the Harvard Catholic Student Association that is based at St. Paul...
...council also passed an order calling on city officials to meet with Harvard and MIT to obtain the use of a soccer field for Cambridge youth soccer this spring...
...made for picking off an animal in the woods but for blowing people to chopped meat at close-to-medium range, and anyone who needs a banana clip with 30 shells in it to hit a buck should not be hunting at all. These guns have only two uses: you can take them down to the local range and spend a lot of money blasting off 500 rounds an afternoon at silhouette targets of the Ayatullah, or you can use them to off your rivals and create lots of police widows. It depends on what kind...
Water marketing, first debated in the 1970s, was an appealing idea: farmers use about 85% of California's water, and because they get it from state and federal water projects at subsidized rates, they tend to squander it. An acre- foot that costs Southern California urbanites $230 may cost farmers as little as $10, so even adding in the heavy cost of transporting the water in the state's vast aqueduct system, there is room for both sides to benefit from resale of unneeded irrigation allotments. The idea had two minor drawbacks: many California farmers would sooner spread salt...
...other voices may object to the idea that farmers who receive subsidized water for crops, and further subsidies not to grow those crops, should profit handsomely on the sale of the subsidized water. Willey argues that the profits will be going to produce new public benefits: irrigation systems that use less water and produce less pollution. A Mono County businessman suggests that the sale of water rights ought to be regulated to prevent profiteering. But here Willey hews to the free-market line: even if the price per acre-foot starts out high, he says, competition will drive it down...