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... land reformer and economist who in Progress and Poverty ( 1879 ) proposed the single tax : that the state tax away all economic rent - the income from the use of the bare land , but not from improvements - and abolish all other taxes ...
... land reformer and economist who in Progress and Poverty ( 1879 ) proposed the single tax : that the state tax away all economic rent - the income from the use of the bare land , but not from improvements - and abolish all other taxes ...
Page 290
... land through the recrystallization of snow and that moves forward under its own weight . The term ice sheet is commonly ap- plied to a glacier occupying an extensive tract of relatively level land and exhibiting flow from the centre ...
... land through the recrystallization of snow and that moves forward under its own weight . The term ice sheet is commonly ap- plied to a glacier occupying an extensive tract of relatively level land and exhibiting flow from the centre ...
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... land area . Layers of snow falling on its barren , windswept surface become compressed into ice layers , which constantly move outward to the peripheral glaciers ; the Jakobshavn Glacier , often moving 100 feet ( 30 m ) a day , is among ...
... land area . Layers of snow falling on its barren , windswept surface become compressed into ice layers , which constantly move outward to the peripheral glaciers ; the Jakobshavn Glacier , often moving 100 feet ( 30 m ) a day , is among ...
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