Word: landed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After more than two years of wrangling, Harvard has purchased the St. Paul's Church parking lot and adjoining rectory, the largest undeveloped plot of land in Harvard Square...
...University, which paid an undisclosed sum for the property two weeks ago, will build faculty and affiliate housing on the land, the parish pastor said yesterday...
Founded by land developers as a farming center in the 1860s, Clay Center had hopes of becoming a rival of Chicago. Nowadays the four stoplights that mark the corners of the town's courthouse square often change from green to yellow to red without anybody noticing. Most of the shops on the town square rarely get more than two customers at a time. Shoppers who once bustled along the dusty main strip have defected to the new mall in Manhattan, 40 miles to the southeast, or the Wal-Mart outside Concordia, equidistant in the opposite direction...
Even 60 years later, Soviet farmers have not forgiven Joseph Stalin for taking away their land. Now Mikhail Gorbachev is offering, more or less, to give it back. Under a new policy unveiled by the Soviet President last week at a plenum of the Communist Party's Central Committee, private farmers will be able to lease land for 50 years and beyond and even pass their tenancy on to their children. It will, Gorbachev declared, make the Soviet farmer "the master on the land...
...State land, that is. Ever heedful of reluctant conservatives like agriculture boss Yegor Ligachev, who believe the collectives could be resuscitated with an infusion of government funds, Gorbachev stopped short of true privatization. Even as he gave an approving nod to "individual property," Gorbachev announced that conversion to free farming would be on a "voluntary" basis. He also made clear that the leasing scheme would fall within the framework of the collective system...