Word: annexation
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...commuter gridlock caused by urban sprawl has turned downtown Toronto into a hot real estate market. Once affordable middle-class neighborhoods such as family-friendly High Park and artsy Annex are suddenly seeing homes sold for as much as $900,000, while new condos sprout almost weekly from former downtown parking lots, barely staying ahead of demand. Even Donald Trump has been drawn to the party: In the financial district, condos at Trump Toronto start at $1.6 million...
...Opening a fromagerie in a part of the world where cheese is merely a prefix to cake takes some nerve, and that probably explains why the Cheese Room is the only one of its kind in Asia. It is run as an annex to a buzzing brasserie, the Press Room (so named because it occupies part of the site that housed a now-defunct Chinese newspaper). With its neighbor M1NT, a private members' club, the Press Room has formed a promising enclave of gentrification in a hitherto overlooked part of Central district, luring happy-hour drinkers in their suited scores...
...Hemp Plus,” head to the Dudley Co-Op). That is, if you haven’t had an epileptic seizure from the “mood lights.” If you’re in Winthrop, just think of it as an annex of Eliot. This will lessen your confusion and increase your self-esteem. You can even attend their stein clubs on Thursdays. And if you’re housed in Pfoho-Currier-Cabot? Good luck figuring out which is which. We know we’ve been out there once, but don?...
...Bank Sepah, Iran's fifth largest bank, and its principal officers are also listed in the resolution annex as targets of heightened surveillance. The U.S. has already barred it from doing business with U.S. banks and companies on grounds that the Iranian regime had used it to finance weapons of mass destruction, and now the U.S. hopes to use the Security Council resolution to hamper its access to global capital markets. But in a sign that not all the Security Council powers share the U.S. agenda, China's U.N. Ambassador Wang Guangya told Reuters, "The main objective is our concern...
...steps it takes against the Revolutionary Guard. Stopping short of the travel ban preferred by the U.S., the draft calls on nations to "exercise vigilance and restraint" in allowing certain Iranians across their borders, and to alert a special committee of Security Council when they do so. An annex to the resolution specifically designates seven top officers of the IRGC to be treated in this way. It also singles out three IRGC-run aeronautics companies, on the basis of their role in Iran's "asymmetric warfare doctrine...