Word: landed
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...land hardly famous for political comebacks, Boris Yeltsin, the brash populist who a year ago was ousted as Moscow Communist Party boss and candidate member of the Politburo, has become a symbol of the opportunities and obstacles that Gorbachev now faces. Yeltsin's triumph, along with the defeat of party hacks from Siberia to Lithuania, represented a rousing endorsement of Gorbachev's vision of perestroika. But it also represented a feisty revolt against the failure of his reforms to improve the harsh realities of Soviet life...
Harvard offered the archdiocese $4 million at that time, later lowering the offer to $3 million because the parish wanted low-income housing on the land. But the University lost a bidding war with Boston developer H.J. Davis, who offered $7 million...
...Nunn (D-Ga.) and now being considered by the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, would provide students with $10,000 to be used for tuition or job training for each year they spend in a proposed Civilian Service, a national program which would promote projects such as land reclamation and adult education...
...talk SAT scores. Or net worth. Would you like to know what a year at Harvard costs? The amount of financial aid awarded? How many players dish out the full $18,000+ to play hockey for the oldest college in the land...
...lieu of tax payments," made to the city by those holding non-taxable land, will provide $1.5 million in revenue, down from $3.02 million in the fiscal 1989 revised budget. More than one-half the land in Cambridge, most of it belonging to Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is non-taxable...