Word: netted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...until the meager soil is exhausted, then move deeper into the forest to clear new land. The farming and burning thus become a perpetual cycle of depredation. Thousands of pioneers give up on farming altogether and migrate to the Amazon's new cities to find work. For many the net effect of the attempt to colonize Rondonia has been a shift from urban slums to Amazonian slums. Says Donald Sawyer, a demographer from the University of Minas Gerais: "The word is out that living on a 125-acre plot in the jungle is not that good...
...NYNEX strike, effecting telephone workers from NET, began August 6. Union officials said this week they are asking students not to pay their phone bills until the dispute is settled...
...preparation for the switchover, new wiring has already been laid in 80 percent of the Yard dorms and several of the houses, Blaisdell said. In its largest communications project ever, NET ultimately will install 14,000 new telephone jacks in 175 Harvard buildings by next May, Murphy and Blaisdell said...
Once functioning, Intellipath will lower costs and improve communications flexibility at the University, Blaisdell said. And starting next September, he said, the University--instead of NET--will set phone service prices and control line installations...
Although the goal has not yet been finalized, sources say that it will exceed the $1.1 billion stash Stanford hopes to net as part of its current five-year drive. Some inside observers have placed the Harvard figure at as high as $2 billion...