Especially when sunshine, rich land and plenty of parking awaited him off the freeway at Chavez Ravine?
In the 1879-84 War of the Pacific, Chile won control of mineral-rich land once held by Peru and Bolivia, and the outcome left Bolivia landlocked.
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.
Although some of the ranchers whom Mr Johnson and his fellow-peyoteros work with have been leasing them peyote-rich land for decades, others are increasingly unwilling to do so.
The groups own much of the land in northern Quebec and without their blessing, mining companies as well as provincial government have no right to mine their mineral rich land.
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In that time, the generals have succeeded in turning a resource-rich land of 45m people, once considered to have one of the most promising economies in Asia, into an oppressed, poor nation widely shunned by the outside world.
There will be rich kids who land legacy slots at fancy colleges, poor kids who fall behind while attending rotten elementary schools.
And a half century of "special relationships" -- or, more precisely, addictive codependencies -- have only produced Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, Libya's Muammar al-Gaddafi, Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and, in the end, September 11, Osama bin Laden's murderous response to the permanent deployment of American troops in the oil-rich Saudi holy land.
It happens most decisively in wealthy areas that are also land-rich.
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Such people, land-rich but cash-poor, may now submit their credits to the state treasury for a full cash refund whenever the state budget is in surplus.
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Another land-rich company, Florida East Coast Industries of St.
Of course perennially land-rich and cash-poor Chesapeake was seeking to talk up its book at the time it was negotiating joint ventures, but that vast discrepancy between the values that the company was touting to shareholders in its presentations compared with ultimate deal realizations should just reiterate how little credibility McClendon has with investors.
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For most of the families that land on the Rich List, the story ends in failure sooner or later.
Swag bags in the land of the rich and famous hold designer jeans, champagne, gourmet vegan chocolate, and things like passes to pricey SoulCycle classes.
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Peter Schweizer is the president of the Government Accountability Institute, and is the author of numerous books, including Throw Them All Out: How Politicians and Their Friends Get Rich Off Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, and Cronyism That Would Send the Rest of Us to Prison.
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Cheap land, cheap labour and rich natural resources have attracted big inflows of foreign investment, especially from Asian neighbours like China, Vietnam and Thailand.
The land was known for its rich, fertile soil.
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The land surrounding the villages is also rich in every sense of the word.
In fact, the land has often been given to rich cronies of the regime.
"I would like to see a much tougher approach to the windfalls on property and land values enjoyed by the super rich, " he told delegates.
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.
He stood up to the Cecils (perhaps the most powerful aristocratic family in the land) to ensure that the rich were not allowed to erect special memorials to their own sons.
The island at 1, 800 acres, the largest private island among the 60 or so that make up the British Virgin Islands has a rich lore, both as a speck of land and as a resort.
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They imagined me going to the best schools in the land, even though they weren't rich, because in a generous America you don't have to be rich to achieve your potential.
And bang in the middle of the land they want is Kirkuk, an oil-rich city now well within Baghdad's control.
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Other former coffee-plantation land, high in the mountains where the soil is rich in volcanic minerals, remains overgrown with weeds and contains barren trees.
Route 66 in Cars Land is approximately 525 feet long and 23 feet wide, rich with inspiration from the actual American highway.
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He lectured about the need to unite against the threat of a rich Muslim minority bent on marrying and converting Buddhist women, buying up land with foreign funding and flooding the population with Muslim babies.
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