under an administration that makes no bones about its aim to stick the poor, the boomers got rid of the provision altogether: last fall Congress passed a bill that increased the 160-acre limitation to 960 for "small" corporations and 640 for large, and granted free leasing privileges to all. Though ignored since its...
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At 12:40 p.m. I was having lunch with my family in the backyard… My wife was making coffee and we feel a beastly stink… I said, let’s go inside, that one can’t resist… Ten days later they say it was dioxin. So we could have died ten times…
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A number of influential commentators in the United States have recently begun to argue that economic development in the Third World would be incompatible with natural resource conservation and pollution control on a global scale.