Peasants have been legally trading land-use rights for years.

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The Environment Agency said that more than 4, 000 bales of household waste were deposited last year on land managed by NW Trading (NWT).

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Lennar Corp. (NYSE: LEN ) is the third largest builder of single family attached and detached homes across most of the U.S.. It also engages in real estate development and trading and has an attractive pipeline of land due to opportunistic buying in a distressed housing market.

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Gamal and Alaa remain in prison while on trial for alleged insider trading and using their influence to buy state land at a fraction of its value.

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Elsewhere in scandal-land, Sam Waksal pleaded guilty to charges of insider trading in the shares of his firm, ImClone, in return for keeping his daughter out of jail.

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Shops at the Tabaka trading centre were looted as police, in four Land Rovers, tried to restore order.

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The contrarian walled deep inside newsletter land might want to sell people on the idea that oil prices, trading sideways all year, are heading to the vicinity of 50 bucks a barrel.

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