Word: lande
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...decade now, by executive order, a stretch of road between Jantar Mantar and Parliament Street is the officially designated protest space in India's capital - all others are off limits. As a result, Jantar Mantar offers a rich daily marketplace of grievances, ranging from tribes demanding compensation for lost land and farmers seeking better prices for their produce to demands for women's and gay-rights, and everything in between...
...usability of the information, the collaborative ways in which sites are linking data together and the degree to which the new tools are motivating civic activism. While Barack Obama's online fund raising may set new records and the Obama "Baracky" video may someday land in a museum, the long-term legacy of this presidential campaign season may have more to do with the monitoring of government's mundane details than with flashy fund raising or viral videos...
...Mission Tiki have started selling again, and at $7 per adult and free entry for kids under 10, movie-goers are re-embracing the affordable luxury of a night at the drive-in. "It's a family bargain," says Frank Huttinger, vice president of marketing for De Anza Land & Leisure Corp., the family-owned business that operates the Mission Tiki. "It's quality presentation. Our biggest problem is letting people know that we're still there...
Television, naturally, is largely responsible for the fall of the drive-in, but so are creeping suburbs, rising land values and the seasonal difficulty of operating an open-air business. Drive-in owners often can't rely only on theater income to make ends meet. The Mission Tiki's family manages swap meets to help cover costs. So, the theater's grounds do double duty - market by day; drive-in by sunset, four nights a week...
...against Thaksin. But the criticism of the P.M. wasn't limited to his relationship with his predecessor. The Democrats also charged that Samak has mismanaged the economy and dented national sovereignty by supporting Cambodia's bid to procure UNESCO World Heritage status for an ancient Khmer temple located on land some Thais believe is theirs...