Word: parcelling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many of the Government's properties are white elephants of the most unwanted breed. One such mammoth is the 24,000-acre Banning-Lewis Ranch, situated just outside vastly overbuilt Colorado Springs. A developer paid $200 million for the parcel in the mid-1980s as the future site of several planned communities, but now the land is virtually useless because the city has de-annexed it. As a result, anyone who wishes to develop the former ranch can no longer count on municipally priced water...
...rights lawyer dead, were models for two unrelated episodes last week. In Brooklyn, a booby-trapped .22-cal. sawed-off rifle, which failed to go off, was mailed in a briefcase to a federal prosecutor. In Houston a Pentecostal minister's daughter suffered burns when she opened an exploding parcel addressed to her father...
...days later two more parcel bombs appeared. One detonated in Savannah, killing Robert E. Robinson, an attorney and alderman. In Atlanta, police disarmed another lethal package; it was addressed to the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, on which Vance served. In Jacksonville, Fla., local N.A.A.C.P. president Willye Dennis was in such a hurry to leave the office that she did not have time to unwrap a package that had just been delivered. Hearing the next morning of Robinson's death, she remembered the unopened box and called the sheriff's office, which discovered inside it a bomb made...
...years have brought 100 racially motivated shootings and assaults, eleven murders and 60 cross burnings in 40 states and the District of Columbia. The N.A.A.C.P. has suffered several attacks. The organization's national headquarters in Baltimore has been hit by mysterious gunfire twice since July, and last August a parcel containing a tear-gas bomb exploded in its Atlanta office; more than a dozen employees were injured...
...force, but the biggest U.S. military venture since Viet Nam does not look to be an easy triumph. Operation Just Cause was well planned but flawed. Can Panama's new U.S.-installed leaders run the country? Manuel Noriega may have lost control of himself as well as his country. Parcel bombs kill a Southern judge and a civil rights activist...