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  • Ruth and I lived there during much of the 1980s in a resistance community in north Omaha called Greenfields, named after the anti-war song The Greenfields of France.

    America. It is big and it will kill you. 2007

  • They moved to Greenfields, which is nearby in Katlehong, and went back to the squatter camp on Tuesday to vote where they were registered.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • At this time all the land at the top of Edge-hill was an open space called the Greenfields, on part of which Edge-hill church is built.

    Recollections of Old Liverpool A Nonagenarian

  • An hour had elapsed; it was now midnight; the moon rode high, a cold white disk against a background of sapphire velvet, its pellucid rays revealing with disheartening distinctness the inanimate and lightless roadside hamlet called Greenfields; its general store and postoffice, its _soi-disant_ hotel, its straggling line of dilapidated habitations, all wrapped in silence profound and impenetrable.

    The Brass Bowl Louis Joseph Vance 1906

  • As well as using by-products from the distillery process to generate power, the developers are also planning a so-called Greenfields plant alongside the biomass plant, which will turn a liquid by-product of the distilling process known as Pot Ale into an organic fertiliser for use by local farmers.

    The most recent articles from BusinessGreen 2009

  • Meeting the Greenfields years ago, Band of Outsiders' Mr. Sternberg said he was "romanticized and seduced" by the carefully sewn garments and the story of the family-owned firm's survival.

    Fashion's New (Old) Thing Robin Kawakami 2011

  • Liberal senator and long-serving president of the Senate, and Tony Bandle, an accountant who also works for the Greenfields Foundation, the Liberals 'major fundraising arm.

    Geoff McGibbon 2010

  • The Greenfields have been selective about adopting new technology.

    Tailor-Made in the U.S.A. 2011

  • His plan, called Redfields to Greenfields, is to bring private philanthropists and public entities, such as local and state governments, to fund and form what's known as a land bank, a public authority created to transform vacant and foreclosed real estate back to productive use, such as turning dead malls and foreclosed commercial property into new urban parks.

    Couple Channel Olmsted to Create Land Bank 2010

  • Although young people at the island's secure children's home, Greenfields, did not feel unsafe at the time of the inquiry, former residents reported "highly credible evidence" of "abusive" experiences.

    Archive 2008-11-01 2008

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