Word: encroachment
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...posh building complexes mean profits to some and an attractive bedroom community to Cambridge's growing population of affluent young professionals, they inevitably mean prohibitively expensive housing and probable displacement for many people who now live in the city. A Cambridge housing market without rent control not only would encroach on the city's various blue-collar neighborhoods--the most common fear of rent control activists--but would also exclude many moderate and middle income professionals. Moreover, the cost of displacing many Cambridge residents would be an end to the diverse and vibrant community that is this city's greatest...
...down from their wings at takeoff like giant commas. They are also among the rarest: only an estimated 700 to 900 black- necked cranes survive in the wild, most of them living on the 10,000-ft.- high plateaus in the northwestern region of Tibetan China. As humans encroach on their nesting and wintering grounds, the number of birds continues to dwindle, and officials of the People's Republic of China fear that the species may become extinct...
...think this is a reasonable proposal that meets the faculty halfway because it doesn't encroach" on their power, chairman of the coalition Nicky Cheats said yesterday...
Washington shows particular zeal in trying to justify its actions against Afghanistan and in spreading the allegation that the U.S.S.R. threatens the oil supply lines on which Western countries depend. Our country does not have the slightest intention to encroach upon energy sources in the Middle East. And it is not Soviet forces that are stationed in the region...
...encroach in theirs...