Word: land
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high-tech helicopters had used infrared vision- enhancing gear to watch the Iranians rolling their explosive cargo into the sea. Under questioning, some of the sailors admitted what they were doing and even told where they had dropped the lethal charges. U.S. Navy SEALs (sea, air and land commandos) who boarded the vessel found charts detailing the mine- laying scheme. This helped the Navy locate and disarm seven other mines that the Iran Ajr had dropped into the sea-lanes...
...return on the land isminuscule," said Graham, "can I have thoseminuscule dollars to fix up my community...
...changed over the past decade. My mother says I've developed more "Yankee-land" characteristics, breaking out of my cloistered Southern background and becoming a city...
...made a practice of selling off medium-sized houses under rent control to small land-lords who in turn qualify under the city code to evict rent-control tenants...
Since 1978 the company's holdings have grown from about $8 million worth of property to many times that figure--HRE spent almost $30 million on purchases of land and buildings during the past year alone...