Word: land
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Justices declared that when government regulations unreasonably prevent all uses of land, this amounts to confiscation. The owner is thus entitled to payment, even if the restrictions are later lifted. Writing for a majority made up of both liberal and conservative colleagues, Chief Justice William Rehnquist said, "We merely hold that where the government's activities have already worked a taking of all use of property, no subsequent action by the government can relieve it of the duty to provide compensation for the period during which the taking was effective." Rehnquist acknowledged that the decision would "lessen to some extent...
...Justice John Paul Stevens, the dissenters branded the decision a "loose cannon." They charged that it would discourage the passage of important land regulations, "even perhaps in the health and safety area," and predicted that it would generate a swell of unproductive litigation. Indeed, the court returned the Glendale suit to California courts to determine whether the stringency of the county ordinance amounted to a confiscation or whether the ban was a reasonable safety regulation...
...noted sermon is a code of conduct for Americans doing business in South Africa. A decade ago, the Rev. Leon Sullivan, a Baptist clergyman and civil rights leader, formulated a set of antiapartheid principles that came to be adopted by a majority of U.S. companies operating in that troubled land. Last week Sullivan called a press conference in Washington to announce a dramatic change in strategy. Because the so-called Sullivan Principles had failed to bring an end to apartheid, he declared, he had concluded that all American firms should leave South Africa and that the Reagan Administration should break...
...computer operator, to any organization other than his flying club, from which he rented the single-engine aircraft. One intriguing theory for Rust's motivation was advanced by a West German amateur pilot named Silke Matzen, who was traveling in the Soviet Union and witnessed the Red Square landing. Since it occurred on the Christian holy day marking Christ's ascension to heaven, she noted, Rust may have been acting out a popular German aviators' drinking toast that goes, "On Ascension Day we land in Red Square...
...Orange County, Community Activist Russ Burkett grouses about inadequate funding for such basic services as police protection and sewage systems in addition to transportation. Says he: "The landholders have such powerful control that they dictate policy for the entire county. They got rich by developing the land, but now they don't want to pay for all the services we need." Burkett has formed a group, Orange County Tomorrow, that plans to initiate a ballot proposal to stop growth in areas where traffic does not move freely...