Word: parceled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bring in a tenure-track minority faculty member. Even though Chambers was an eminent Black attorney, he was of little use to the students' affirmative action plans, since he had made clear that he had no desire to seek permanent employment with Harvard. "This issue has been part and parcel of an ongoing struggle to enhance the 'minority' presence at HLS," Muhammad Kenyatta, president of the Harvard Black Law Students Association (BLSA) wrote to Chambers after the announcement, explaining why his group would urge a student boycott of the course. "The campaign for the course has been a stratagem...
...small bits of Government-owned land near large urban areas are often this country's most valuable recreation assets. To sell to a developer a parcel of beachfront property like Fort DeRussy in Honolulu, the last open spot along Waikiki Beach, is not just shortsighted, it is criminal. Such choice pieces of real estate should be recognized as national treasures...
Westover Air Force Base. The only place in the East north of Cape Canaveral with a runway capable of handling the space shuttle, this western Massachusetts facility has been doled out a parcel at a time since the Strategic Air Command left it in 1974. The base golf course was given to the neighboring town of Ludlow; an electric utility consortium purchased the vaults once used to store nuclear warheads. A private developer is currently converting onetime servicemen's residences into one, two-and three-bedroom units that will sell for $25,000 to $35,000. Now the base hospital...
Myrtle Beach Air Force Base. On the block are two parcels, one within the base perimeter on busy U.S. Highway 17, the other on a bypass behind the base. The 51 acres are not eye pleasing, but local officials believe the land fronting Highway 17, across from a state park, could be worth as much as $750,000 to a commercial developer. The other parcel has already been used for a highway; 18 acres suitable for housing or commercial development remain...
...edge of town, in the wooded country of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where some of Ernest Hemingway's Nick Adams stories are set, this nine-acre National Guard camp has piqued the attention of at least two potential users. Lake Superior State College is interested in adding the parcel to its 114-acre campus. The city of Sault Sainte Marie believes it has a legal claim to the land as well. The land is believed to be worth $3,000 per acre...