Word: land
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...construction project. With its crumbling concrete eaves, noisy bar and dusty windows, the building may add character to the Square--but not the sort which chambers of commerce appreciate. And since the assessed value of the two-story structure is less than half that of the land under it--about $1 million as compared to $2.5 million--the Coop could improve its investment with a larger building...
Faced with constant disputes over property development and expansion, Cambridge and its largest land-owner and employer--Harvard--seem to be at war more often than at peace...
WARSAW--Solidarity won a land-slide victory in Poland's most democratic elections in more than 40 years, the Communist Party leaders said yesterday. Apparently, dozens of senior officials were turned out of Parliament...
What Reingold found instead was a land of tremendous civility and efficiency. Even a trip to the gas station taught him something about the Japanese concept of service, as a platoon of well-mannered attendants took charge of the car, filled it up, washed it and checked the tires. His first reaction: "Why didn't someone tell me about this place before...
...deepest change may be a planetary intuition that military war is pointless. Except in atavistic places like the Middle East and Ireland, conquering territory is a fruitless and counterproductive exercise. Why conquer land? The Soviets have more trouble than they can manage with their nationalities. The new world's battlegrounds are markets and ideas. The Japanese and Germans, having learned their military lessons the hard way, re- entered the war by other means...