Word: land
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...over the roof into the stadium, and a roller coaster screams by third base. Though the infield grass is plastic, the place is handsome. "Almost too nice," says the pitcher Bret Saberhagen. "It doesn't feel like spring training." In the name of civic pride and the interest of land development, tin and wood are being traded everywhere for aluminum and concrete...
...jobs they created, however temporarily, in the construction and retail businesses. The old estates on the surrounding hills of El Poblado were replaced by luxurious red-brick apartment buildings topped with satellite dishes to enable tenants to watch Miami Vice and other U.S. programs. Shopping malls proliferated, and land values soared...
...Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir was being pressed to accept a new U.S. peace plan that would initiate talks this spring with an international conference, settle arrangements for Palestinian self- rule, and begin by December to negotiate a permanent end to the occupation by handing back parts of the disputed land to Arab control. Adding to Shamir's troubles as he prepared for this week's meetings on the plan with President Reagan were sharp criticisms from 30 U.S. Senators who attacked him for rejecting the "land-for-peace" proposal. Finally, the European Parliament took a slap at the embattled Israeli...
...proposal "fraught with danger" for Israel, he said the "document does not serve the cause of peace or advance it even by one centimeter." Shamir opposes surrendering the West Bank in return for a promise of peace, arguing that the territory, captured in 1967, formed part of the biblical land of Israel and now provides the nation with more secure borders...
Yale's seven secret societies accept only seniors, about 12 each year, and are Yale's equivalent of Harvard's final clubs. The societies have no formal ties to the university, own their own land, are not on a centrex phone system and are not recognized as official student organizations, said Walter Litell, a Yale spokesman. Like the final clubs, they have been accused of being networking organizations and "bastions of elitism...