Word: landed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposal currently before the council, sponsored by East Harvard Square resident Terry Crystal, would severely restrict development rights on land in the vicinity of the station, cutting the maximum allowable floor area ratio (FAR) from 3.0 to 1.75, and imposing a 45-foot height limit on buildings covered by the petition. FAR is the ratio of the total floor area of a building to the area of the property on which it sits...
Unlike America's yeoman farmers, the East European, Russian and Asian peasants were unlikely to own full title to their land or to produce more than their family and feudal overlord consumed. Their impoverished rural existence fostered these attributes of peasant societies: a leveling egalitarianism that prefers to see a neighbor fail in any efforts at improving his lot; envy that a neighbor may be better off, coupled with a belief that he must have cheated; suspicion of anything new, since most changes were for the worst; rampant superstition; and, finally, an unquestioning acceptance of a higher, distant authority, like...
This month Spence announced an agreement that would ensure that FAS will eventually own the site. But designation of the land is just one part of a huge task facing the University--where to house its burgeoning supply of books and scholars...
...Zeckhauser the issue of day-care provides a commonality between her and other female workers; as the University offfical responsibility for land usage, she is in a position to get more day care facilities built...
Shevardnadze has proved to be an equally trusted Gorbachev lieutenant on the domestic front. He confers with the Soviet leader at least twice a day, discussing topics that might range from the country's ethnic unrest to land leasing and family farms. Foreign Ministry staffers, with their boss's encouragement, have lobbied other branches of the bureaucracy to improve the country's human rights image. Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov, 59, has smoothly refined the notion of glasnost in government at daily press briefings, packaging information with slivers of barbed wit. When clashes between troops and nationalist demonstrators in Shevardnadze...