Word: land
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...latest battle of Manassas began in earnest last January when Hazel/ Peterson Co., the largest land developers in northern Virginia, joined Edward DeBartolo, the nation's biggest shopping-center developer, to propose the mall, complete with new highway intersections, commuter parking lots and high- rise office buildings. Down came a barrage of hostile fire from outraged Civil War buffs, including Actor Charlton Heston and former White House Spokesman Jody Powell, a descendant of nine Manassas veterans. Ground where 4,200 soldiers gave their lives, say the preservationists, should not be overwhelmed by noise, traffic and pollution from...
...political system. Editorialized the Johannesburg Sunday Star: "It is almost impossible for the most moderate black, colored and Indian leaders to offer their services in seeking a negotiated constitution when Mr. Botha's men are fighting to keep them and those whom they lead off the beaches, off white land, out of white group areas and the best schools...
...into his narrative. For all their individual charms, his hero and heroine have a way of both exalting and destroying everything and everyone around them, including each other. And behind their individual fates lies another, equally ambiguous story, which may be either the arrival of civilization in a barbarous land or the destruction of an Edenic world by pompous, ignorant invaders. Like the best fiction, Oscar and Lucinda does not require a choice between its alternative visions. It offers instead an enchanting contradiction, a mirror and a glass, a joyous reflection of how much and how little mere mortals...
Bodrum is at the center of a tourism explosion that has taken Turkey by surprise. Over the past several years the country has evolved from a quiet, almost isolated land into one of the hottest tourist spots in Europe. Veteran pleasure seekers from all over the world are targeting the country for its gorgeous azure water, unparalleled archaeology and bargain-basement prices. "It was a white spot on the map," says Heinrich Aken, a medical researcher from Bonn. "Everyone has already seen Greece, Italy, Spain, Morocco and Algeria. Turkey is the only thing left in the Mediterranean." Explains a Japanese...
...sure, this is no land for five-star aficionados. It has virtually no true luxury hotels, and the number of total hotel beds is an absurdly low 120,000. The space situation is so bad that officials in Urgup, the main town of the Cappadocia region, are opening up private homes to tourists to ease the shortage. Telephone service is poor almost everywhere in the country, and road conditions are often atrocious. Even a town as large as Bodrum (pop. 13,500) still has no sewer system. Tourists who choose to travel in the eastern areas are advised to bring...