Word: parcelling
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...newest offshoots, Algeco is also offering investors parcels of freshly seeded forest land for $800. Though the investor must wait 30 years for his trees to grow up, Algeco's executives claim that each parcel by then should be worth more than $4,000−which, they point out, is enough to provide a fetching dowry for a daughter...
...shape of the composition and the shape of the canvas in the surface unity. The edge of the canvas is one of the limits (not boundaries) of the painted chevrons. The dramatic shape of the canvas is not determined by an arbitrary circumference; it is part and parcel of the shapes of the fields of color. Each chevron marks off a parallelogram of different size but of similar proportions. The whole constantly intermingles with the parts and is more than their...
...Pardon, what did you say?" asked the myopic student, but Bundie merely stared at the parcel. The student muttered something and turned back to his seat...
...began with the biggest real-estate deal in history. On April 30, 1803, Napoleon Bonaparte sold Thomas Jefferson a parcel of land called Louisiana. It ran from the Mississippi to the Rockies, from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, and it was quite a bargain: 827,987 sq. mi. for $15 million. But what the U.S. owned it did not occupy. Already British traders were pressing south from Canada and Spanish raiders were roaming north from Mexico. Jefferson realized that he would have to move fast if America was to retain its new territory. He moved fast...
Contemporary glass attempts inspiration without narrative. It is also more part and parcel of the architecture. In a blend of concrete and glass called Be-tonglas, Loire melds translucent chunks of 623 shades, provided by the Saint-Gobain glassworks, with concrete forms. Free as a mosaic maker, he often chips away the edges of his glass slabs, making them into odd lenses that scatter light haphazardly...