Word: land
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...major zoning plan ordinarily needs a 6-3 majority on the Council to pass, but a landowner of 20 percent or more of the area may object to the plan and require that it receive seven votes to pass. Harvard owns more than 20 percent of the land in the Square and will exercise its right to demand a 7-2 vote for passage, said Associate Vice President for State and Community Affairs Jacqueline O'Neill...
Last week the government took the strongest action yet to hobble the messenger. Determined to deal firmly with the widespread protests called to mark Palestinian Land Day without the usual glare of publicity, the army banned all foreign reporters from the occupied territories for three days, except for a dozen pool reporters accompanied by the military. Said I.D.F. Spokesman Colonel Raanan Gissin: "We know the presence of the press incites and instigates the violence...
Although modest by local standards, the 6,500-sq.-ft. house has three bedrooms, a library, dining room, barbecue room, pantry room, two servants' rooms, a heated swimming pool and a three-car garage. Realtor Jeff Hyland says that since the land value of the plot alone could be as high as $3 million, "the house in a sense came for free." A furnished brand-new home two doors down from the Reagans' new abode recently sold for $14.75 million. "Reagan got the cheapest house in the area," says Hyland...
...beset by big discounters like K mart on one side and specialty retailers on the other. Such large chains as the Limited clothing boutiques, Radio Shack electronics stores and Toys 'R' Us have all stolen substantial sales from department stores. At the same time, quality catalog retailers, including Land's End, the Sharper Image and Eddie Bauer, have captured a growing share of retail sales by catering to two-income couples with more money than time to spare. Foreign retailers have also entered the fray in a big way. Since 1980, for example, Benetton of Treviso, Italy, has opened more...
...even as the "Protector of the Land of Snows" sustains all the secret exoticism of that otherworldly kingdom reimagined in the West as Shangri-La, he remains very much a leader in the real world. Since the age of 15, he has been forced to deal with his people's needs against the competing interests of Beijing, Washington and New Delhi. That always inflammable situation reached a kind of climax last fall, when Tibetans rioted in Lhasa, their Chinese rulers killed as many as 32 people, the Dalai Lama held his first major press conference in Dharmsala...