Much of it has been abandoned and there's no central land registry of ownership.
He worked with Mayor Richard Daley to bring the Illinois Center, built on Illinois Central land, to downtown Chicago.
Brazil lacks a central land register, suffers widespread forgery of title deeds and has a long history of squatters seizing land.
In Maningrida, in Central Arnhem Land east of Darwin, 3, 000 indigenous residents speak seven completely different languages and about 22 distinctive dialects within a relatively small area.
Schaefer lobbied the Ethiopian government to donate land in a central location so the school could serve children from several nearby villages.
The site includes the land from the central part of the peninsula to its tip (Shiretoko Cape) and the surrounding marine area.
Nigel Encalada of the Institute for Social and Cultural Research, a state-run body, says Central Americans have snapped up land and home loans faster than locals have.
Chile's dry summer climate in the central zone, where rich land is watered by the melting Andean snows, is comparable to the best of California or New Zealand.
China has more than 1, 000 county-level governments and hundreds of city and municipal councils that rely on revenue from local taxes, land sales and central-government transfers because rules bar most from selling bonds.
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Among the programs added are Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs, TLC's Say Yes To The Dress and Animal Planet's Whale Wars, as well as thousands of TV episodes from MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, TV Land, Spike, VH1, BET, CMT and Logo.
Globally, the impact of plentiful liquidity is reaching a crescendo, with stocks high, spreads narrow, growth strong, land prices booming and central banks flooded with dollars.
Some minorities in the central highlands can own and sell their land, and may even pass it on to their children.
Cheung said looking forward, if land and labor costs in central and western provinces continue to rise rapidly, factories would be unwilling to relocate there due to their inferior logistics network.
If Intel can successfully land deals for CNN, Comedy Central, MTV and other properties owned by its supposed new partners then its TV experiment could stand a legitimate chance at success.
The Columbia was returning to Kennedy Space Center in Florida after a 16-day research mission when it broke up in flames about 200, 000 feet over north-central Texas minutes before it was scheduled to land.
Tourism to the Lamanai Outpost jungle lodge, in the wild heart of Belize, helps fund the Lamanai Field Research Center (LFRC) -- a not-for-profit venture established in 1992 to promote sustainable land use and tourism in the Central American country.
The rebels, known as Naxalites, have been fighting the central government for more than four decades, demanding land and jobs for tenant farmers and the poor.
One area the ban does not cover is "median strips" - known as the central reservation in the UK - the sliver of land in the middle of a large road.
Central Seattle in the early 1960s was not a land of easy opportunity for Delno and Ida Raines, or for the six children they raised in the house that Delno built from the remains of one the highway department planned to demolish.
He has directed three road movies: "The Motorcycle Diaries" (2004), "Central Station" (1998) and "Foreign Land" (1996), which he co-directed with Daniela Thomas.
They could land in Africa, in Syria, perhaps Central America.
Central government, the local community and environmentalists agreed to put land and forest of significance in the control of the Department of Conservation, with a small area of 50, 000 hectares made available for sustainable indigenous forest harvesting.
The European Central Bank just bumped up interest rates despite faltering economies in euro land.
State governments, which own most forests, must seek central-government approval for any shift in the use of forest land.
Central College Nottingham said it wants to build the development on derelict land on Canal Street, next to the tram line.
In the context of the Massif Central and the Tarn Gorge, it is a colossal piece of land art that completes the landscape, arguably making it better, adding majesty to the serenity of the hillscape.
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In Central America, six countries all squabble over at least some stretch of their land or sea borders.
When the forest is on peat, as in much of central Kalimantan, Sumatra and Papua, the cost of Indonesia's messy land use becomes epic.
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In order to stop flood waters overwhelming central London and to save the massive expense of building fresh flood walls and defences, some land could be set aside to act as a safety valve, catching flood waters and storing them until the danger has passed.
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