Word: lande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Duehay said the city has only partial control over what eventually happens to the land...
...city has zoning power so it can limit what is put on the development in certain ways," Duehay said. "But a private company owns the land...
Even the National Mall, the mile-long National Park Service land stretching from the Washington Monument to the U.S. Capitol, offers little respite...
...and/or pity--the music industry has turned to festivals. Not stationary, one-time events like Woodstocks I and II, but massive, carnival-like musical tours that feature at least half a dozen acts as well as food booths, souvenir stands and more. This summer several festivals are touring the land, each with a distinct character, each vying for a hold on the pop-culture imagination and wallet...
These were astonishingly unjust, even for colonial times. Forced labor by natives, a kind of tax paid for the privilege of being ruled by Holland, was coming to an end, but expropriation of native land for sugar plantations and other industry was still common. Indonesians were without standing in civil or criminal disputes with whites, as Minke discovers when in his late teens he marries Annelies, an ethereal mixed-blood beauty. She inherits some property, and her venomous white half-brother has no trouble having the marriage declared nonexistent and sailing for Holland with both Annelies and her money...