Land speculators also contributed to this by buying land cheap and selling it for expensive prices.

Land prices skyrocketed and Riverton's subdivisions expanded.

Land prices have risen dramatically in recent years, resulting in the subdivision of pastures that once served dairy farms and mid-size ranches.

In 1853, the Island government passed the Land Purchase Act which empowered them to purchase lands from those owners who were willing to sell, and then resell the land to settlers for low prices.

Land prices were rapidly increasing due to the Japanese asset price bubble, inflation increased at the highest rate since 1975, unemployment reached a record high at 3. 2 %, bankruptcies were rife, and there was political rancor over LDP-proposed tax reform.

In the 1880s the long boom culminated in a frenzy of speculation and rapid inflation of land prices known as the Land Boom.

Land prices in the area have increased sharply, but despite its increased appeal to professionals, Kensington still remains a predominantly working class, immigrant community.

Land grants to the railroads meant they could sell tracts for family farms ( 80 to 200 acres ) at low prices with extended credit.

* King of Sand Land-As the current ruler of Sand Land the king makes enormous profit by selling bottled water at high prices.

Land prices in the same period dropped dramatically, as the farm was bought for £ 11, 165 in 1858 and sold for only £ 1, 800 in 1899, losing 84 % of its value.

Land prices have risen considerably since 2001, with The Grove long regarded the most prestigious street in the suburb.

Land prices in Japan were the highest in the world at the time, and Kisho Kurokawa, one of Japan's most famous architects, has said that staggeringly ambitious buildings employing highly sophisticated engineering are still cheap, because companies pay 90 % of the cost for the land and only 10 % for the building.

* Land values can be estimated by using recent prices for similar plots of land sold in the area.

Land prices on what would become the shoreline had already jumped to $ 1, 000 an acre ; summer developments sprang up almost immediately.

Land prices needed to be high enough so that workers who saved to buy land of their own remained in the workforce long enough to avoid a labour shortage.

When oil prices spiked in 2007, Vintage notified the U. S. Bureau of Land Management of its intentions to find out if oil is contained in the Carrizo Plain.

Land would be available to all who need it and at reasonable prices.

Land prices around Yaowarat Road have always been one of the most expensive in Bangkok and Thailand due to limited land which is mostly owned by prominent Thai-Chinese families who are often leaders in their respective industries.

Land reclamation efforts by the Mamluks and Ottomans further contributed to expansion on the east bank of the river.

In 1853 he contributed Athenians with the Minotaur and Moses Putting Off his Sandals within Sight of the Promised Land to the Great Exhibition.

The Wiradjuri language had effectively died out of everyday spoken use, but has recently been reclaimed from early European anthropologist's records and from words contributed by several Wiradjuri families, by elder Stan Grant, a member of the Wiradjuri Elder's Council, and John Rudder Ph. D., who has previously studied Australian Aboriginal languages in Arnhem Land.

France contributed with Dumont d ' Urville Station and Charcot Station in Adélie Land.

Land, particularly geographic locations and mineral deposits, has historically been the cause of much conflict and dispute ; land reform programs, which are designed to redistribute possession and / or use of geographic land, are often the cause of much controversy, and conflicts over the economic rent of mineral deposits have contributed to many civil wars, particularly in Africa.

After the war, he wrote a pamphlet ( with some content contributed by Padmore ), Kenya: The Land of Conflict, published by the International African Service Bureau under the imprint Panaf Service.

Gesenius also contributed extensively to Ersch and Gruber's Encyclopädie, and enriched the German translation of Johann Ludwig Burckhardt's Travels in Syria and the Holy Land with valuable geographical notes.

In 1963, vice-president of the National Council Norton Clapp contributed funds to purchase another of land within the Maxwell Land Grant, consisting of the Baldy Mountain mining area.

Cahn contributed lyrics for two otherwise unrelated films about the Land of Oz, Journey Back to Oz ( 1971 ) and The Wizard of Oz ( 1982 ).

In 19th c. the Chełmno Land ( and Brodnica in particular ) was a refuge of Polish patriots who contributed greatly to social, cultural and economic life of the region, like Ignacy Łyskowski.

Land reform well managed by the government contributed to a degree of stability in this field.

In 1872, the Larimer County Land Improvement Company contributed a second 80-acre ( 320, 000 m² ) parcel.

Growing scientific recognition of the role of private lands for endangered species recovery and the landmark 1981 court decision in Palila v. Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources both contributed to making Habitat Conservation Plans / Incidental Take Permits " a major force for wildlife conservation and a major headache to the development community ", wrote Robert D. Thornton in the 1991 Environmental Law article, Searching for Consensus and Predictability: Habitat Conservation Planning under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.

The Land Company needed the station to serve housing it was building to the east of the railway line on the site of Harringay House, so it contributed £ 3, 500 to the cost and agreed to bear the working costs of the station for an initial period.

The Auburn University Alumni Association and many Auburn alumni contributed to the effort and a new eagle was located at the Tennessee Valley Authority Raptor Rehabilitation Facility in Land Between The Lakes, Kentucky.

It has contributed greatly to the richness of Chengdu Plain with its reputation as " The Land of Abundance ".

In 1997, Mills contributed vocals to the nine-minute song ' Narayan ' on The Prodigy's third album The Fat of the Land.

He also illustrated books, such as Round About Wiltshire, The Land of Pardons ( an early study of Breton folklore & Celtic Christianity ), and contributed illustrations to school readers such as Highroads of Literature.

From the 1950s the Polish Land Forces have contributed troops to peacekeeping operations, initially the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission in Korea.

The former Land Between the Lakes National High Adventure Base contributed a couple of canoes, a pontoon boat, some office equipment and one employee, Stu Cottrrell, who became the first program director.

In 2005, The Actual contributed two songs " Promised Land " and " Dancing On The Perimeter " to the film " Bewitched " ( 2005 ).

The pair have also created Scarlet Traces, a sequel of sorts to H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds in graphic novel form, and Leviathan, a steampunk horror series which appeared in 2000 AD, and contributed a two-part storyline to the Batman event No Man's Land.

Allen spent much of the summer of 1774 writing a " pamphlet " entitled A Brief Narrative of the Proceedings of the Government of New York Relative to Their Obtaining the Jurisdiction of that Large District of Land to the Westward of the Connecticut River.

Our obligation is to strengthen our resisting brothers in the Sacred Land as much as we can.

Robert A. Heinlein originally coined the term grok in his 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land as a Martian word that could not be defined in Earthling terms, but can be associated with various literal meanings such as " water ", " to drink ", " life ", or " to live ", and had a much more profound figurative meaning that is hard for terrestrial culture to understand because of its assumption of a singular reality.

Some of Baum's contacts with suffragists of his day seem to have inspired much of his second Oz story, The Marvelous Land of Oz.

Though much of John XXI's brief papacy was dominated by the powerful Cardinal Giovanni Gaetano Orsini ( who succeeded him as Pope Nicholas III ), John attempted to launch a crusade for the Holy Land, pushed for a union with the Eastern church, and did what he could to maintain peace between the Christian nations.

South African Archbishop the Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu said he was " very deeply distressed " by a visit to the Holy Land, adding that " it reminded me so much of what happened to us black people in South Africa ".

In the alternate future depicted in Marvel 2099, an alien attack floods much of the earth rendering the Savage Land the only inhabitable space.

Magneto and Professor X spent much of the show's second season trapped in the Savage Land ( Xavier's legs having fortunately been restored as a result of the loss of his powers ) until Sinister used them as bait to lure the X-Men into a trap in the season finale, Sinister's forces subsequently being defeated when Wolverine escaped capture and teamed up with Ka-Zar to infiltrate the base and defeat Sinister.

Competition for land was a primary cause of the New Zealand Land Wars of the 1860s and 1870s, in which the Taranaki and Waikato regions were invaded by colonial troops and Māori of these regions had much of their land taken from them.

Since 1914 much of the drainage had been destroyed, although some parts had been restored by Land Drainage Companies brought from England.

Fully enforced by 1967, this law gave the central government and municipalities much land occupied illegally by Salvadoran immigrants and redistributed this land to native-born Honduran peoples as specified by the Land Reform Law.

" Land of Hope and Glory " has long been sung amidst much flag-waving at the climax of the Last Night of the BBC Proms.

In April 1833 Edward Henty, returning to Van Diemen's Land from Spencer Gulf called in to Portland for a cargo of oil, and was much impressed.

Nicholas ordered Rasputin to leave St. Petersburg for a time, much to Alexandra's displeasure, and Rasputin went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

Between 1200 – 800 BC, much of Armenia was united under a confederation of kingdoms, which Assyrian sources called Nairi (" Land of Rivers " in Assyrian ").

Much of the county is taken up by White River National Forest, and much of the rest is managed by the Bureau of Land Management.

A large area of vacant Crown Land is found along much of the eastern edge.

Land in the area in 1886 was selling for around $ 10 – 25 per acre, but by the spring of 1887 land was selling for as much as $ 18, 000 per acre.

Phelps ' sales were largely unsuccessful, and he eventually sold much of his land to Nicholas T. Smith's San Carlos Land Development Company.

With the help of the Simsbury Land Trust, much of Tulmeadow Farm's farmland is protected from future development.

The settlers found the area suitable for farming, as Chickatawbut and his group, who used the name Passonagessit (" Little Neck of Land ") for the area, had cleared much of the land of trees.

Haledon's villa development was always rather limited and throughout much of the 20th century Haledon was a typical blue-collar community set by the small property sizes planned by the Cedar Cliff Land Company.

Land management became the primary occupation of the aristocracy, not so much because direct control by the imperial family or central government had declined but more from strong family solidarity and a lack of a sense of Japan as a single nation.