When Mr. Isaacson says they, he means that conglomeration of environmentalists, liberal money and politicians -- often Democrats -- who, over the years, have set aside some 300 million of Alaska's 365 million acres as untouchable public land.
Correction: August 13 , 2004 Friday A front-page article last Friday about a Republican delegate from Alaska who says he is coming to the party's national convention to spread his belief that more of the Alaskan wilderness should be developed to create jobs misstated the amount of untouchable public land there.
A front-page article last Friday about a Republican delegate from Alaska who says he is coming to the party's national convention to spread his belief that more of the Alaskan wilderness should be developed to create jobs misstated the amount of untouchable public land there.
Yet the Maoists also stress that they are fighting to protect the rights of India's most oppressed communities, the adivasis or tribal people, and dalits, or untouchables, whose land and resources have often been taken by Indian and international corporations.
So what seemed like dream property forever out of their reach — including waterfront sites near cities or land bordering untouchable parks — is suddenly attainable.
The deal affirms the principles of free speech and multiparty democracy, but it also appears to declare Mr. Mugabe's disastrous land reform untouchable.
Reflecting upon his family's history of continual misery, he reveals that as Dalits, or the former untouchable caste, they never owned land.
India has lobbied against any mention of its "untouchables," the underclass that is sometimes deprived of land ownership and required to drink and eat from separate utensils.
If Tiananmen Square is untouchable, elsewhere in China, the government has been hungrily seizing land and demolishing buildings in its quest for growth.
Deposits of sand, gravel, and stone can be found all over the United States, but many of them are untouchable, because they're covered by houses, shopping malls, or protected land.
"All the people and the distant lands that you encounter in these pictures remain untouchable behind the glass walls".
