So a few years ago, to protect his views, Tusher bought a perpetual lease.

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The Harbinger deal is to secure valuable wireless spectrum of 1.4 to 1.6, which LightSquared CEO, Sanjiv Ahuja, tells FORBES will be part of a 99-year perpetual lease.

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Since then, his administration has imprisoned some 680 people at Guantanamo Bay precisely because it believed that the naval base, held on a perpetual lease, is outside the reach of anyone's courts, including America's.

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