Word: surveyor
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...bold business maneuvers, one need only know that as a young medical student in Pakistan in the late 1950s he made roughly $10 million selling land along the anticipated rights of way of new highways revealed to him by a patient who happened to be a public-works surveyor. Dr. Hasan, a neurologist, says he was once "rabidly anti-managed care." He built his first HMO to counter a health plan that moved into Pueblo and sapped revenue from the city's specialists. But suddenly he saw opportunity in the new medicine. Over the next few years he created...
...Grant's new films aim for that mixture of nostalgia and satire. The Englishman ... is writer-director Christopher Monger's fable about a Welsh village whose denizens are determined that their local hill (elevation 300 m) be declared a mountain (elevation at least 305 m). Grant, as the English surveyor who is finally seduced by their cause, struts and tut-tuts through his part with authority, but all his patented exertions can't keep the film from proceeding at a geriatric pace...
...Park. The park was to be "forever wild," and the state's 22-year-old Adirondack Park Agency regulates growth. But it also generates fury--expressed by barn burning, tire slashing and vehicle shooting, in addition to much heated talk. One of the angriest is Richard Schoenstadt, 44, a surveyor's assistant who bought 54 riverfront acres, intending to subdivide. The apa insisted on an exhaustive biological inventory. Then, says Schoenstadt, who between fighting and complying lost the property and his $50,000 savings, the agency wanted assurance that his picnic tables would not float away during floods...
...buying and selling farms and houses, building and operating a three-story hotel called the Orient, a shingle mill, a hardware store and a waterworks, and donating land for a station when the railroad came through in '92. That was the year he and two other men paid a surveyor to plot out the town. That year -- and any other, according to a town history -- he was good for a suit of clothes, or a railroad ticket, or the rent money, when someone was down on his luck. After the Depression, my father told me, F.H. made no effort...
Born on a disputed date in spring 1906, Beckett claimed to remember being a fetus in the womb, a place he recalled not as a haven but as a dark ocean of agony. The son of a surveyor and a nurse, he had a conventional Dublin Protestant upbringing, studied classics in high school and romance languages at Trinity College. At 21 he went to Paris and fell in with literary expatriates including James Joyce, who became a friend and an inspiration -- although, as Beckett noted, Joyce tended toward omniscience and omnipresence in his narrative voice, "whereas I work with impotence...