Some Kansas towns are fighting back by giving away free land, with mixed results.
Plans to offer free land to a housing association in South Yorkshire are to be discussed by a city's council cabinet.
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"The new owners just want free land that they can develop, " said Patrick Soluri, a local lawyer who leads an opposition group.
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The Roman Emperor Pertinax granted 10 years tax immunity and free land to those who would take over agricultural land abandoned because of heavy taxation.
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Using very much a pencil sketch of the theory we find that where there is free land available then rents are going to be very low.
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Further loss of Arctic ice will see radiation absorbed by darker seawater and snow-free land, potentially warming the Earth's climate at an even faster rate than current observational data indicates.
It argues that for much of its history America (and to some extent other rich countries) enjoyed the benefits of free land, lots of immigrant labour and powerful new technologies.
The government says it will soon publish revised guidance, encouraging local authorities to use risk-free land first, and obliging developers to pay for flood defences when they build on risky land.
Excerpt (White): The Turner thesis is very simple: What made Americans was the existence of free land in the West, and it was the constant settlement of that free land, the retreat back to nature--back to barbarism almost--and then the recapitulation of progress out of this initial retreat that made Americans who they are.
In the 1990s when I was young, there was a land selling frenzy within the neighbourhood in preference for cheap or free forest land in Mau.
Congress finally acknowledged defeat in 1862 with the passage of the Homestead Act, which gave settlers free federal land if they cultivated it for five years.
The US was more equal, the most equal country in the world at that time, because the US was just about the only place with free fertile land.
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The BBC's Rahul Tandon in Calcutta says that the case has been closely followed across India, which needs to free up land for industry if it wants to continue its economic growth.
To conserve the Trust's hard-raised money, Heller tries to get free gifts of land.
Such fears have precluded a free market for land, further adding to private firms' difficulties.
The profit they subsequently made on selling the original house meant they effectively got the land free.
It takes little more than a nod to get me started on free trade, land use controls, patent policy, employment discrimination laws, public unions, drug regulation and tort reform.
Alexandria leases the land free of charge.
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Ranchers who had once allowed scientists to explore their land for free began leasing it to the highest bidder.
But rents are going to be low where there are large amounts of unused and free for the taking land.
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To step into this situation, I wouldn't even allow myself to dream this big when I was thinking of where I would land in free agency.
Even in the land of the free, mergers are not as easy as they seem.
Blessed to live in the land of the free, you could have opted for an easier path.
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We're Americans, the land of the free and the home of the brave.
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This is the land of the free, and it always will be.
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The last gallery has a major work from that year: "Polaroid (Land of the Free)" by Lisa Oppenheim, one of the so-called New Materialists.
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But this is America, the home of the brave, land of the free, and site of some of the stupidest farm programs ever concocted.
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