Word: landed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the supertanker Amoco Cadiz foundered in 1978, spewing 68 million gal. of crude oil over the beaches of Brittany, it created the worst petroleum spill ever to hit land. It also launched one of the world's stickiest legal battles. The French government and a host of other plaintiffs claimed $1.6 billion in damages...
Emerson has never made a firm commitment to Lawrence. so even if the city eventually succeeds in obtaining the site, the college may still decide that it does not want to occupy the land after all, Brooks said...
...land Lawrence wants to seize is a 152-acre parcel on the banks of the Merrimac River. Lawrence would like to appropriate 87 acres to the college, and 65 acres to a proposed riverfront park...
...plaintiffs in the case, land developer Harold Brooks, said that the city could have gained more revenue by opening the land to other ventures...
...living in Taiwan. He likes hot, spicy food. That's the wole story, were not the mystery rekindled by the limited edition Ta Chien print on the wall. It is a landscape, viewed through a peculiar window a foot high and perhaps ten feet long. There are sea, land and river mouths, but the whole is rendered abstract and emotionally disturbed by the odd shape and the subtle colors. It is a plain and impenetrable as Dylan's "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands," despite helpful paper signs by the staff labeling various blotches as particular rivers...