Word: landed
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...arboretum's land--265 acres that are three blocks from the T's Arborway stop on the green line--is owned by the city of Boston but is leased by Harvard for the nominal fee of $1 per year. The property houses more than 7,000 kinds of trees, shrubs and other plants...
Under the new proposal, land owned by St. Paul's Church on Mt. Auburn St. would not be rezoned, but development rights on the former site of the Gulf station would still be severely limited...
Changes to the city's zoning laws normally require the approval of six councillors, or six of nine votes, but if the owners of 20 percent of the land in the area affected oppose the change, a seventh vote is necessary. Harvard, which owns about half the land covered under the Crystal petition, has already registered its opposition to the plan...
...Peasants don't exist as a group anymore. We have forgotten how to work the land...
...prices. By dictating everything from salaries to the price of finished goods, Moscow planners rob factories of any incentive to hold down costs or make a profit. For example, the prices of labor and raw materials are kept so artificially low that factory managers live in a financial fantasy land. "Right now factory managers don't know when they're doing a good job. They can say they're profitable even though they're selling tractors for $2,000 when they should be selling them for $5,000," says Judy Shelton, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution in California...