We had clear title to 480 acres of good bottom land on the south bank of the Arkansas River not far from Dardanelle in Yell County, Arkansas.

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Frogs surface-dived into puddles and with a wriggle or two, dissolved into the muddy bottom, and land crabs ran en-pointe along the tide line.

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If the developer was good, he could buy land at the bottom and sell on an upward curve.

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Only one industry in the bottom 10 ranking saw a sales decline, and that was land subdivision (NAICS 2372), which includes companies that subdivide and prepare land for subsequent sale to builders.

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How is it that some givers, like Hornik, land on top, while other givers wind up on the bottom, as pushovers and doormats, failing to advance their own interests?

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Mediocre results and gilt-edged paychecks land the Bank of New York's Thomas Renyi near the bottom of our rankings.

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She also notes "broader demographic themes" that will support growing bottom lines for homebuilders, such as continued immigration into the United States, a shortage of land available for building, and the market share that big builders continue to steal from the "mom and pop" outfits.

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