Word: seizinger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Triantafillou said the council's Housing and Community Development Committee will be discussing this morning the possibility of seizing the house and paying the owner, Grove Real Estate Trust, the market price. The city can legally seize the property under eminent domain law.
The mayor, who has made it his mission to change the habits of his fellow New Yorkers in regard to everything from graffiti to jaywalking, is betting that the courts will uphold his new tactic, as the Supreme Court has done in the case of seizure of assets from drug...
To be fair, Colin James, advertised as the "New Swing Pioneer," cannot be accused of simply seizing on the current popularity of swing music for sheer profit; the predecessor to this well-timed sequel appeared way back in 1993. That said, the ennui-inducing contents of this album seem to...
The people coordinating the sweatshop protests aren't the first to think of this strategy. The storming of administration buildings has been part of the campus protester's handbook since the mid-'60s, when anti-war students discovered how powerfully symbolic seizing the heart of a university could be. Harvard...
To be fair, the people behind the anti-sweatshop movement at Harvard have given no real indication that they will follow the lead of their colleagues at other campuses. Hopefully, they won't; ending the University's involvement with sweatshop labor is a noble goal, but not one that justifies...