Word: landed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University angered some councilors by exercising its prerogative as a 20-per-cent land owner in the Harvard Square area to effectively kill zoning regulations that would have restricted development in the Square...
...only as a progressive who brought Iran into the 20th century, but as socially advanced. Newspaper and magazine accounts cited the Shah's record in relaxing censorship, halting torture and replacing political prisoners as evidence of his willingness to cooperate with the opposition, and reported that the abortive land reform efforts of the '60s marked both the Shah's enlightenment and formed the pretext for opposition to his regime...
...site for a papal visit, Mexico abounds with historical paradox. So ingrained is anticlericalism in this overwhelmingly Catholic land that President Lopez Portillo was under considerable pressure not to see the Pope at all, much less greet him upon his arrival. Under Mexican law, John Paul could have been fined for wearing clerical garb in public. Of course, that law is now winked at, as are constitutional provisions that prohibit the church from operating schools and priests from saying anything about political matters...
...forceful sermon at the plaza, John Paul called upon Christians to construct "a world more just, human and livable," where "no longer will there be children without sufficient nutrition, without education. No longer will there be peasants without land to allow them to live with dignity. No longer will there be systems that permit the exploitation of man by man or by the state. No longer will there be families badly broken, disunited...
...Brazil, delegates representing 50,000 church-organized grass-roots communities declared at their annual meeting last year: "Land in the hands of those who don't need it, workers earning a pittance, hunger, infant mortality and illiteracy. This great sin is a social sin, and it is called the capitalist system...