• 'We haven't needed to - the land has always been like this.

    BBC: The three colours of Ibiza

  • The city acted after Costco threatened to shut down its own store if the city didn't hand it the land--conveniently owned by its competitor--for expansion.

    FORBES: Land Grab

  • "I made a promise to my dad on his deathbed - to get the land back - and I don't break my promises, " he says.

    BBC: India's booming land values spark family feuds

  • Cleveland East Ledge in Massachusetts and Baltimore Light in Maryland--aren't attached to land.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • His task was simple but profound: to make sure that what we wrote didn't land us in court--but if it did, that we would win.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • Simon also helps international students who don't yet have jobs to land short-term consulting engagements in the U.S. The thinking is it will tide them over for a few months after graduation and allow them to continue hunting for a more permanent U.S.-based position.

    WSJ: For Hire: Foreign Business Students

  • We don't have anything in the Philippines - a house or land - for me this is my home.

    BBC: Mr Quibuyen said his family considered Wales as their home

  • We - of course, we didn't land on the moon until '69.

    NPR: Space Race Permeated Pop Culture

  • In the 17th century our British overlords didn't dream the colonies would become hotbeds of individual land-ownership.

    FORBES: The Latest Inflation Numbers

  • Ownership of what is essentially a dead asset doesn't make us more productive, doesn't open up foreign markets, but it does land-lock us.

    FORBES: Political Economy

  • Acrobatics hasn't historically been a well-regarded profession in this ancient land, says Sun Wenjing, who owns and operates the Yilin acrobatic school with her husband.

    NPR: The Acrobats of China's Wuqiao County

  • He started the festival on his land in 1970, when Marc Bolan and T-Rex were the top attraction.

    BBC: Glastonbury tickets are 90% sold

  • But just because wrinkles and retirement are non-issues in the land of animation doesn't mean remaining on the cultural radar is a guarantee.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Their frugality paid off: in their midtwenties, when most of their friends weren't even married yet, they bought a quarter-acre lot of land and had a house built.

    NPR: Weak Housing Market May Not Be Signal to Buy

  • But since then the Administration hasn't gone all out to pursue critical steps even with its sea- and land-based programs.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Robertson couldn't resist Kidnappers, he says, because the land is so dramatic--6, 000 hilly acres culminating in 600-foot cliffs above the Pacific Ocean.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Sadly, someone else had a similar idea with a book, and that resulted in some lawsuits when would-be treasure hunters started digging up land that wasn't theirs to dig, in search of the bounty.

    ENGADGET: blogger-avatar

  • Former Tesla CEO and co-founder Martin Eberhard got a vague demotion to "President of Technology" in August, so perhaps we should've seen it coming, but it looks like he's now been phased out entirely -- which doesn't really point to happy fun times in Tesla land.

    ENGADGET: Tesla co-founder gets the boot, "not at all happy" about it

  • Plenty of land has meant the region didn't have the tremendous run-up in prices that occurred in many other markets.

    NPR: Charlotte, N.C., a Sweet Spot for Housing

  • First and foremost, getting financial reform done and making it the law of the land so that we don't find ourselves celebrating the two-year anniversary of an economic collapse with rules that continue the way they did two years ago.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • On her party's suggestion that land should be leased and not acquired--as that won't change the ownership--the government has agreed to let individual states to decide, Ms. Swaraj said.

    WSJ: Land Bill Likely to Get Parliament Nod

  • That won't work with all software, of course, such as featured launch title Nintendo Land -- a carnival-themed collection of 12 games spotlighting major Nintendo franchises, from Animal Crossing to Zelda.

    ENGADGET: Nintendo Wii U review HD

  • "What we've found is that some of what we do to the land - we plough the fields and we add fertiliser - doesn't go through to the river for decades, " said Dr Howden.

    BBC: Thames archive reveals long nitrate rise

  • In a celebrity-saturated culture, it can be difficult for adults to draw the line between what is acceptable behavior and what may work in the fantasy land that exists in the Hollywood Hills, but isn't actually real-world appropriate.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • "Baby boomers are downsizing and getting tired of mowing the lawn, and many are looking for a place where they don't have to drive for everything, " said Christopher Leinberger, a Washington urban land-use strategist and partner in developer Arcadia Land Co.

    WSJ: Toll Brothers Goes Condo

  • It's noticeably larger than the company's more compact land-limited models, but there's no reason you wouldn't feel just as comfortable using this to shoot your child's first birthday party as you would their first scuba lesson.

    ENGADGET: Canon PowerShot D20 ruggedized point-and-shoot camera hands-on (video)

  • If General Growth's per-foot sales(and thus, presumably, rents) aren't the highest in the land, how does it keep recording these scorching earnings increases?

    FORBES: Good Neighbors

  • Ranch land is plentiful and the cows don't protest that their view is being spoiled - in fact they shelter in the shade of the turbine towers.

    BBC: Ranchers driving wind revolution

  • Startup companies, by definition, aren't going to attract A-level talent without the lure of that talent's being able to land a share of the gains if the companies hit the jackpot.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • Abbas says he won't return to negotiations without an Israeli construction freeze, arguing that Israel's building on war-won land pre-empts the outcome of talks on a border between Israel and a future state of Palestine.

    NPR: Palestinians Cool To Partial Settlement Freeze

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