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That ratio, known as FAR, is the proportion of a building's floor space to the size...
...Club frequently has requested tax reductions known as abatements, arguing that high city taxes could force the club to fold...
Aides and relatives of Takeshita and his predecessor, former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, are known to have purchased shares of Recruit Cosmos -- 12,000 and 29,000 respectively. Both men deny personal involvement. Those transactions, Takeshita declared last week, were "their personal dealings, not mine...
...blow struck against Mexico's most powerful drug lord was the latest in a series of headline-grabbing actions initiated by President Carlos Salinas de Gortari since he took office late last year. In January, after a sensational shoot-out in Ciudad Madero, police arrested Joaquin Hernandez Galicia, known as "La Quina," the powerful and widely feared leader of Mexico's oil workers' union. A month later Eduardo Legorreta Chauvert, a top businessman with ties to the Salinas government, was jailed on charges of stock fraud. What La Quina, Legorreta and Felix Gallardo have in common is that they...
...truth: the thorny problem of nationalism had erupted in violence yet again in one of Mikhail Gorbachev's non-Russian republics. From the Baltic republics to earthquake-devastated Armenia, greater independence from Moscow has become a rallying cry. The latest troubles began last month, when a minority group known as the Abkhazians, who live in an autonomous enclave in the western part of Georgia, demanded full independence. Georgians, who account for 48% of the population in Abkhazia where Abkhazians are a mere 17%, staged counterprotests, which quickly spread to Tbilisi and mushroomed into calls for more autonomy from Moscow...