A wave of federal and city housing subsidies poured into the area in 1989 as the opening of the station neared, leading to the renovation of about 3, 500 housing units ( homes and apartments ) and a rise in the price of land ( to $ 55 per square foot from $ 2 per square foot, an increase of 2, 650 percent ) around the station.

As Celia neared the Texas coastline, another round of rapid deepening occurred.

As the election neared Kwaśniewski dropped in the polls and it became uncertain whether he would win the 50 % required to avoid a second round.

Valiant 2001 eventually secured control of the club after a long and drawn – out process as the season neared its close.

Forgotten, for the most part, were Myers ’ distinctive contributions to our native art and the battles he has fought for art freedom ... Last year, as the end neared, Myers looked back on a long and fruitful life and wrote a most interesting autobiography, Artist in Manhattan ( American Artists Group ; New York ).”

As Dagen H neared, every intersection was equipped with an extra set of poles and traffic signals wrapped in black plastic.

On 16 January 1912, as Scott's party neared the Pole, it was Bowers who first spotted a black flag left at a camp made by Roald Amundsen's polar party over a month previously.

Ross's 1841 expedition been unable to land here, but as Antarctic neared the cape, conditions were calm enough for a boat to be lowered.

The origin of the party can be traced back to the ideological divisions in the Labour Party in the 1950s ( with its forerunner being the Campaign for Democratic Socialism established to support the Gaitskellites ), but publicly lies in the 1979 Dimbleby Lecture given by Roy Jenkins as he neared the end of his presidency of the European Commission.

Captain Cardenas subsequently told reporters that the cars and their escort had been fired on by a group, as they neared the penitentiary.

However, as conspiracy neared completion in 1688, the English government sometimes used to disrupt this correspondence by holding up the whole mail delivery system.

As Lenin neared death after suffering strokes, he declared in his testament of December 1922 an order to remove Joseph Stalin from his post as General Secretary and replace him by " some other person who is superior to Stalin only in one respect, namely, in being more tolerant, more loyal, more polite and more attentive to comrades ".

By mid – April up to 1, 000 Japanese Americans were arriving daily, and by July the population of the camp neared 10, 000.

As the protesters neared the Pentagon, they were met by soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division who formed a human barricade blocking the Pentagon steps.

On 13 February, as it neared its destination, the ship was torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-55 Kaidai class submarine and the Derrymore was abandoned.

Accompanied by her mother, she felt " dangerously sure of herself " as her train neared Los Angeles.

As he neared the villa, he was shot in the head in an ambush by Viet Minh troops.

As he neared the age of 50, his creativeness was received by two universities, Oxford and Cambridge.

Dejected by his failure to bring Smith to Flint, Moore proclaims that " as we neared the end of the 20th century ", as the rich got richer and the poor got poorer, and " it was truly the dawn of a new era.

The yellow-footed rock-wallaby, which neared extinction after the arrival of Europeans due to hunting and predation by foxes, has now stabilized.

The film also completely ignores the role of William Wilkerson (' The Man Who Built Las Vegas ') in the building of the Flamingo ; Siegel is shown gazing over an empty desert and deciding to build the Flamingo, but the hotel was conceived and constructed wholly by Wilkerson — Siegel only became involved as it neared completion ( Wilkerson owned 48 % of the Flamingo until selling out much later ).

As it neared financial collapse again in September 1984, Bush Exploration merged with Spectrum 7 Energy Corp., a company owned by William DeWitt and Mercer Reynolds.

As the protesters neared the Pentagon, they were met by soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division.

Roosevelt's popularity was at its peak as the campaign of 1908 neared, but he was unwilling to break the tradition by which no President had held office for more than two terms.

Despite being out-played in terms of total yardage, the 49ers trailed by just six points as the game neared its conclusion.

The disadvantage with this — in comparison to self contained glide bombs like the slightly later VB-6 Felix — were that the aircraft had to be flown toward the target on a steady course and that as the missile neared its target it became possible to misguide by jamming its radio channel.

As they neared the end of their flight in full sunlight and clear weather conditions, with visibility extending 10 miles ( 16 km ), the PSA crew was alerted by the approach controller about a small Cessna 172 Skyhawk aircraft nearby.

As the four companies of the battalion neared the crest of Hill 830 they were struck by a wall of small arms and machine gun fire and blasted by B-40 rocket-propelled grenades and mortar fire.

The ghost became notorious by allegedly " whistling up a storm " whenever one of her son ’ s ships neared port.

Oxen transported the granite initially, but as the Transcontinental Railroad neared completion in 1869 the remaining stones were carried by rail at a much faster rate.

His first attack caught Tryon by surprise, but he was prepared for Wooster's second attack, which was made as the column neared Ridgefield.

When the Plymouth neared, it veered toward him and seemed about to run him down.

Sometimes the fish exploded as they neared the surface because of the difference in pressure.

As the end of the Spanish American War neared, the United States bought the Philippines from Spain for $ 20 million.

That evening, as Lara neared the all-time batting record, a huge surge of fans crowded to enter the ground.

As of 23 September 2009, EDS began going to market as HP Enterprise Services, a name change which came one year after HP announced the acquisition of EDS and was a critical milestone as the integration of EDS into HP neared completion.

As the launch of Galileo neared, anti-nuclear groups, concerned over what they perceived as an unacceptable risk to the public's safety from Galileo's RTGs, sought a court injunction prohibiting Galileo's launch.

As the moratorium neared its expiration the following year, an attempt to find a permanent solution was made at the Lausanne Conference of 1932.

As Pei neared the end of his secondary education, he decided to study at an overseas university.

As the opening neared, however, Pei found the hotel still needed work.

As the tower neared completion, Pei was shocked to witness the government's massacre of unarmed civilians at the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

He also described traveling further north, through the Grand Canal to Beijing, but as he neared the capital an internal power struggle among the Yuan Mongols erupted, causing Ibn Battuta and his Hui guides to return to the south coast.

As Jacob neared the land of Canaan, he sent messengers ahead to his brother Esau.

However, as McCain neared the official nomination, the press associated McCain with Kemp more and more.

Ranged volleys at the beginning of the battle would differ markedly from the closer, aimed shots as the battle progressed and the enemy neared.

With his second feature film, Istanbul Under My Wings ( 1995 ), he also brought an unexpected vivacity to the Turkish Cinema whose film production had decreased dramatically and whose number of viewers had neared to nothing during the past 20 years.

As the war neared its inevitable denouement, Solano López's grip on reality loosened further.

As his forces neared the castle, Philip, who had been unable to break through, decided to strike camp.

As the band neared the conclusion of their Snakes & Arrows tour, they announced their first appearance on American television in over 30 years.

Laennec often referred to the stethoscope as " the cylinder ," and as he neared death only a few years later, he bequeathed his own stethoscope to his nephew, referring to it as " the greatest legacy of my life.

As the Beagle neared England in 1836, he noted that species might not be fixed.

As the American Civil War neared, violence spread into Missouri during the Bleeding Kansas incidents.