81.   A new land law will allow the government to expropriate large tracts of idle private farmland, President Hugo Chavez said.

82.   Although rains have eased a protracted drought throughout the region, the long dry spell has left large tracts of South African farmland dusty and unusable.

83.   And the fact remains that over the past few years the State Government allowed the conversion of large tracts of agricultural land for industrial and housing development.

84.   But it destroyed a large tract of one of the last wooded groves on the mountain.

85.   But the fire destroyed a large tract of one of the last wooded groves on the mountain.

86.   ENVIRONMENTALISTS like to harp on the fact that timber extracted fromnatural forests usually leave idle large tracts of logged-over land.

87.   Except for some bajra and wheat, large tracts are dedicated to cash crops like cotton and groundnut.

88.   Fields prepared for other crops are flat with canals constructed along large tracts for irrigation, he said.

89.   Fires, fanned by unusually high temperatures, have destroyed large tracts of forest in many parts of Siberia and the Ural Mountains in recent weeks.

90.   Gabonese politicians and foreign companies have bought the logging rights to large tracts of the region.