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Land leasing has been a necessity in other areas. In Palm Springs, Calif., where about half the land is owned by the Agua Caliente Indians, many home buyers lease their land. Large industrial concerns like Du Pont, Foremost-McKesson and Shell Oil have long rented the ground beneath their buildings to conserve capital for other purposes...
Lengthening the stroke and concentrating on power the Crimson fought back with power tens at both the 1300 and 1600 meter points and upped the cadence to a 39. Princeton however sprinted at the finish and crossed the line just two seats ahead of the Harvard shell in a race so close there was never a greater margin than three seats between...
...size of the state of New Jersey would require building 4,600 shelters and 9,000 miles of roads. Along the roadways, flatbed vehicles, forever rolling, would carry missiles tipped with ten warheads each. That is the $56 billion scheme for safeguarding the proposed MX system, a brobdingnagian shell game meant to foil a Soviet attack on the missiles. The plan has been derided as an ineffective, ecology-destroying boondoggle, and the MX now has a powerful new foe: leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who, Mormons believe, are divinely inspired when they issue...
Modest amounts of oil and gas have been produced in Michigan since 1925, but oil experts are reluctant to speculate about how much production is likely to increase in the years ahead. Nonetheless, big multinational oil companies, such as Shell and Standard Oil of Indiana, which have virtually carpeted the more than 80,000-acre Pigeon River Country State
...pearl of a playwright may emerge from the oyster bed of a wretched early home life. O'Neill, Williams and Miller provide eloquently autobiographical testimony to that. Woody Allen's The Floating Light Bulb seems distinctly autobiographical, but it is no more than a shucked oyster shell of a play...