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...Order the new City Manager James Leo Sullivan to use his right of "eminent domain" so that the city could acquire the property...
Somewhere in the vast decentralized entity called Harvard administration, there is an extremely sensitive mechanism which is triggered whenever the University's domain in any particular area is remotely threatened. It is this informal "nervous" system which sounds the warning and provides the adrenaline spurring Harvard to uncommon levels of involvement...
David L. Johnson '74 and John G. Holmes, a graduate student in environmental engineering--student members of the commission--declined to say yesterday whether the complaint fell within the domain of the commission...
...being proposed. In many cases, immediate economic arguments are replacing the old environmental cry that pristine nature must be protected. Midwestern farmers often oppose proposed nuclear plants, partly because they fear radioactive accidents and partly because the power companies take good farm land for power-plant sites by eminent domain. Some 65% of the residents polled in Durham, N.H., opposed construction of a refinery. Their main reason: the coastline is too valuable an economic resource-for recreation and shellfishing-to give over...
...Eminent domain is a legal process which allows certain companies, such as public utilities, or government agencies, such as highway departments, to sue for the right to take land against the owner's wishes...