Word: deeding
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...Disston controlled the workers inside and outside of the factory. He owned the houses where they lived. He ran the sports teams they played on. Even a century after his death, alcohol may not be sold anywhere on his former estate because of the provision he wrote into his deed...
Just under a week before the Turnpike Authority’s chair planned to officially sign the papers and hand over the deed to Harvard, on Thursday the Massachusetts Bay Transport Authority (MBTA) informed the Turnpike of their intent to seize the land through “eminent domain,” a rarely-used government power to forcibly buy land deemed in the public interest...
...your life, you give up a chance to do something." That was also Palach's view, once he realized he was going to die. His original intention had been merely to scar himself. Some three hours before he passed away, Palach left a schoolmate with the following message: "My deed has fulfilled its purpose. But let no one else do it." Thirty-four years later, the communism he hated is gone, but Palach's wishes are still being defied...
...Bush Administration. But high office in itself was not enough. If they were to rid the world of Saddam and his weapons, they would have to bring on board one influential conservative whose name wasn't on the letter--who at the time was in thought and deed far removed from the Washington policy village. That person was Dick Cheney, who had good reasons to contest the view that the end of Gulf War I had been mishandled--because he was one of those who ended...
...recovery, are looking anew for winners in the post-bubble era. That we were no longer (or not yet) living in Steve Case's world of set-top universes and double-digit growth rates has been (painfully) obvious for two years. But somehow, it seemed important that Case, in deed if not in word, admit...