Word: evictions
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...dispute dates back to World War II, when the Japanese moved the territory's capital to Guadalcanal. That brought an influx, over the years, of migrants from the neighboring island of Malaita onto Guadalcanal, and the Isitabu group has waged a bloody campaign to evict them. Economic sanctions remain the West's most powerful response to such turmoil, but Western leaders have little stomach for an option that will punish the islands' already impoverished residents. Which is why it may be some time before Britain's former Pacific islands live up to the peace described in their name...
...book at Hely. There have been 13 calls to the Lampoon so far this year, up from "only" 10 all of last year, and the police, the fire department and the Lampoon's neighbors have had enough. There is even an outside possibility that the city will seek to evict the Lampoon from the castle is has occupied for 90 years...
When she fell behind in the rent and her landlord warned that he would evict her, she knew she had to do something. She turned to a Manhattan consumer-bankruptcy lawyer, Charles Juntikka. Garcia was typical of many of his clients--embarrassed by her debts, upset over not being able to pay her bills, not knowing where to turn. "There is this image of middle-class people running up huge debts, then declaring bankruptcy and laughing at everyone," he says. "I've just never seen that. These people hurt...
...easier. And that could be a problem for the Clinton administration and its candidates come November. The Navy on Monday moved three ships into position off the Navy's gunnery range on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, amid reports of an imminent federal raid to evict protesters squatting on the Camp Garcia range. President Clinton ordered the facility reopened in January, after concluding a deal with Puerto Rico's governor, Pedro Rosello, in which Washington promised $40 million in exchange for the right to conduct operations using dummy bombs this spring and agreed to abide by a referendum held...
...building was converted from rental units to condominiums five years ago, and the years since then have been marked by her landlord's efforts to evict her, she said...