Word: parcelling
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...scene that would have been unthinkable five and a half years ago. When the developer, Carpenter and co., began its involvement with the property known as Parcel...
...acre site of the old Victoria Barracks, located on the very edge of Hong Kong's commercial district, is prime real estate. Although its buildings are rundown and were abandoned by the British army in 1979, the parcel should have been worth about $250 million on the basis of similar recent real estate sales. But when the Hong Kong government offered it for sale this month, the bids fell "unacceptably" short, and the sale was postponed, victim to uncertainty over the future of the crown colony...
...Pacific Ocean on its sixth swing around the earth last week, the space shuttle Columbia once again made history. Firing its small thrusters, it rolled and turned so that its big cargo bay faced in the direction of flight. Clamshell-shaped sun covers automatically opened, and the cylindrical parcel underneath them was set spinning (at precisely 52 r.p.m.). With the press of a button, Astronaut Bill Lenoir, 43, fired explosive bolts, releasing the spring-loaded clamps holding the parcel. Out it popped, like some extraterrestrial jack-in-the-box. Forty-five minutes later, after Columbia had pulled about 20 miles...
...current shuttle marks the commercial debut of the giant craft with its releasing of two commercial satellites. Following four missions geared toward mechanical testing, the shuttle now assumes its intended status as a super-duper cargo plane, with NASA has some sort of high-powered United Parcel Service. Further dashing the quixotic nature of the space program has been the shuttle's secret military uses. The fourth shuttle flight last June contained classified military cargo and little else. Rumored to be an infra-red tracking and ranging device, the military stow-aways chillingly affirmed the political role which the shuttle...
...young, casually dressed, plainclothes policeman placed an aluminum container on the front doorstep of a three-story, white stucco mansion that houses the Polish embassy in the leafy Kirchenfeld neighborhood of Bern. Then the policeman climbed back into his beige Volkswagen and slowly drove away. Seconds later, the parcel exploded. The front door of the residence dissolved in smoke and flame, and some 20 members of an elite Bern police squad burst into the building. About eight explosions were heard as tear gas and percussion grenades detonated. Within twelve minutes, the gray-uniformed, red-helmeted troopers had captured and handcuffed...