Some token efforts were made to change this regime in the 1980s, and then in 1996 a decree was issued requiring 80% of each plot of land to be preserved as forest, with only 20% to be cultivated or ranched.
But crucially, it is also the place in which we hope that treasured cultural and communal identities, whether national, ethnic or religious, are cultivated and protected.
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The peace that comes when all cravings are lost due to the comforting and redeeming action or the autonomous nervous system, cultivated through proper meditation, is an evolutionary step in the right direction.
He claims that his customers come in at the rate of one a week from all over the world, and he finds them new "engines" in a network of 15 or so transplant hospitals he has cultivated in China, India, the Philippines, South Africa, Singapore, Pakistan and South America.
Others invest foolishly or spend frivolously, but capitalism has cultivated a land of plenty.
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In 41 years as a bookseller, the author has cultivated a collection that values the interesting over the rare or pricey.
In the old days they would have to have a carefully cultivated agent, an American motivated by money, ideology or blackmail, in place to steal sensitive information.
Similarly, a portfolio can be cultivated along the way without taking on a time-consuming or potentially risky active strategy.
In sharp contrast to his predecessor, Hurd has cultivated an image as the UnCarly, arriving without bold proclamations or sweeping plans.
In the past decade, Costa Rica went from producing 2.3 million bags of coffee each growing season to 1.5 million bags, and the number of acres cultivated with coffee dropped from 247, 000 to 212, 000 or less over that time, said Ronald Peters, the president of the Costa Rican Coffee Institute.
Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or poetry must be developed.
But the professor dismisses this, saying most of the arable land is cultivated already, while the rest supports indigenous woodland that is used for grazing cattle, or for wildlife, or both.
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