The commission created a district covering a number of low-rise former warehouse buildings, which some argued didn't merit historic status.

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The historic status of private equity and hedge funds as (largely) unregulated arrangements is based on the explicit assumption that their participants have adequate knowledge and negotiating leverage to protect their interests.

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It has had National Historic Landmark status since 1963, but its roughly 8, 000 acres remain in private hands. (After Vanderbilt's death in 1914, most of the original 125, 000 acres were sold off by his widow, Edith.) Vanderbilt's grandson William A.V.

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The historic building opened in 1934 and enjoys iconic status in the city after surviving the Blitz during World War II.

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It was awarded Grade II listed status last year while its grounds were put on the Historic Parks and Grounds register.

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Only the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, and its shock to the Middle East status quo, made it possible for President Jimmy Carter to move in and negotiate the historic Camp David peace accords between Egypt and Israel.

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Its comparatively high levels of education, relatively advanced social conditions, including the status of women, and a small, apolitical army, seemed to augur well for Tunisia's historic path.

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