Word: lande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bidding war by showering Intel with tax abatements and other assistance. Sandoval County, where the company erected its fab, authorized $2 billion in industrial revenue bonds in 1993 and an additional $8 billion in 1995--the largest local-government bond offering in history. The county held title to the land, building and equipment, which it leased back to Intel...
...company in the tiny town of Vance, a few miles east of Tuscaloosa. Mercedes received a package of incentives that totaled $253 million in value. For example, Alabama acquired and developed the plant site in Vance for $60 million. It used National Guard troops to clear the land and spent $77.5 million on utility improvements and roads...
Maybe. Silicon Valley is littered with the wrecks of start-ups that failed to reach the visual-community promised land. In fact, the Palace was almost one of them. Created by Time Warner in 1995 and independent since '96, the Palace--like most of its competitors--hoped to turn a profit by charging for its software. By last winter, though, it had amassed just 300 sites and 50,000 users, and its investors were looking for a buyer to bail them...
...theatrical climate where fresh ideas are seared by the tongues of bitter critics and innovative productions parched by financial drought, college theatre is a small oasis of low stakes and adequate resources. Sprung from this land, Dan Sussner '99's Richard III is college theater as it was meant to be: ambitious, edgy and most importantly, experimental. Realizing his freedom from the constraints of profit and acclaim, Sussner seizes the rare opportunity to give free reign to his ideas. Though the resulting product is rough and at times obtuse, it has a degree of innovation one hopes to see more...
...Though those may be (hopefully) unapt words for Minnesotans anticipating Jesse "The Mind" Ventura's new term as governor of the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes (and by the way, his real name is James Janos), it would seem to behoove them to get ready for something. Rough-and-tumble populism? Muscular, mustachioed libertarianism? Ross Perot in tights? Let's take a look at the Ventura canon...