Word: land
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thatcher said elimination of the weapons would mean that the "Soviet Union will have achieved its objective of getting land-based nuclear weapons out of Europe. This I believe would be disastrous...
...earthmoving, sawing, hammering, and the cursing of drivers trying to park beside a line of lunch wagons, cement mixers and Porta Pottis. To date, hundreds of older homes in the area have been destroyed for the simple reason that the original "dungalows" were worth so much less than the land underneath them. Palatial homes whose scale is limited only by the owners' taste and imagination are rising in their place. Typically, the latter far exceeds the former...
Such follies can cost homeowners roughly $400 to $500 a sq. ft., plus an estimated $3 million an acre for the land. "Landscaping can be millions of dollars," says Beverly Hills real estate broker Bruce Nelson, who turned over roughly $100 million in land and houses last year. "You can spend half a million on a chandelier without batting...
...Royce Corniche. "Also to the emissary for the Sultan of Brunei, two crown princes in Europe and three Japanese billionaires whose names I can't pronounce." Many foreign buyers are looking for a stable investment, since California seems an unlikely candidate for revolution, and, to the Japanese especially, the land seems cheap compared with Tokyo...
...asteroids passing close by, which scientists call earth grazers. Holt figures that 1989FC may be in Hermes' league, but other astronomers dispute the claim, saying the new asteroid may be only 100 yds. across. Even if the smaller size is correct, no one would want to have 1989FC land in the backyard. A 100-yd.- wide asteroid hitting the earth at a speed of nearly 50,000 m.p.h. could dig a crater a mile or so across and several hundred feet deep -- similar in size to a gaping hole in the Arizona earth, known as Meteor Crater, that was blasted...