Word: landing
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...tired of watching his IRA shrivel, who calls and says, "I'm coming down," who wants six houses at $50,000 each, nice flat homes that he can rent to people who are sick of shoveling snow or climbing stairs. That's less than the land used to sell for; it's as if you get the house for free...
...house - fireplace in the master bedroom, sailboat access, with a pool on the upstairs deck that overflows in a waterfall into the pool downstairs, and a man cave hidden behind a swinging bookcase. Gina spots signs of water damage; they'll just have to keep looking for their promised land. "The Great Depression only happens once every 100 years or so," she says, "and I don't expect to be around for the next...
...flat as a pool table and barely a mile wide at its narrowest, the Rockaway Peninsula - a tongue of land that sticks into the Atlantic Ocean at New York City's southeastern corner - is already vulnerable to storm surges and floods. Global warming, with its rising seas and harder rain, will only intensify those threats. That's what has Vincent Sapienza, the city's assistant commissioner for wastewater treatment, so worried. The Rockaway Wastewater Treatment Plant, which processes 25 million gal. (95,000 cu m) of sewage a day, sits next to the beach, and its pumps are below...
...nearly a million extra people is PlaNYC. Unveiled by Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Earth Day 2007 - and pushed since then with all his considerable political capital - PlaNYC includes more than 120 green initiatives that range from planting a million trees to cleaning up every square mile of contaminated land in the city...
...power plants and roads across this huge nation. "Lots of projects were showcased but very few have been realized because of classic issues like labor laws and the overall investment climate," explains Sandiaga Uno, CEO of Saratoga Capital, a venture capital firm. "Very basic issues like the bureaucracy and land availability have stifled infrastructure efforts...