The government says the dam will generate hydroelectric power for the region, provide water to turn the arid soil into fertile fields and bring 20, 000 jobs to the area, partly through building golf courses for tourists.
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Buckingham found evaporative losses were initially higher from the arid soil, then after three days the evaporation under arid conditions became less than under humid conditions, with the total loss ending up greater from the humid soil.
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Instead, they are applauding the man who has decided to remake the colonial map that left millions of blacks stranded on rocky, arid soil and a tiny white minority in control of half of Zimbabwe's fertile land.
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Most Western officials and foreign donors agree that land should be redistributed in Zimbabwe, where millions of blacks were forced to subsist on rocky, arid soil by British settlers who seized the country's best land during the colonial era.
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Increasingly troubled by work-family conflicts, and uncertain that diversity could ever take root in such arid soil, Nelson resigned in 1994 and is now president of the Leaders Forum, a nonprofit group in Milwaukee that promotes African-American business interests.
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Most Western officials and foreign donors agree that land should be redistributed in Zimbabwe, where thousands of blacks were forced to subsist on rocky, arid soil by British settlers who seized the country's best land during the colonial era.
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Most Western officials and foreign aid donors agree that land should be redistributed in Zimbabwe, where millions of blacks were forced to subsist on rocky, arid soil by British settlers who seized the country's best land during the colonial era.
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There are no forests, but a great variety of non-indigenous trees in the region : bamboo, eucalyptus, and euphorbia grow naturally in steep and arid soil and are used for fire and the milky liquid is used as a poison.
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Everything and everybody seemed wonderfully right and brave to me . . . . They were making the formerly arid soil bloom and recreating with their own labor the land of Jewish destiny . . . . Of course there were dangers.
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Throughout his career, Stegner bemoaned the misguided importation of inherited, humid, wetland habits adapted to the nation's lands east of the 100th meridian the longitudinal line that separates wet-enough from too-dry, 20-plus inches of annual rain to under 12 inches to the arid soils lying to the boundary's west.
