Settled W. Bank lands private
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JERUSALEM -- An up-to-date Israeli government register shows that 32.4 percent of the property held by Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank is private, according to the advocacy group that sued the government to obtain the data.
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Joseph E. Robert Jr., a prominent Washington area investor, and the family of real estate developer Oliver T. Carr Jr. plan to take parts of businesses they control public.
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Land purchase gives Fools something to watch.
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Peace Now says 40 percent of West Bank settlements sit on private Palestinian land.
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Former Boston businessman Frank H. McCourt Jr. has sold the last valuable pieces of his South Boston Waterfront land, two restaurant buildings on the water's edge, for a little more than $4 million.
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Baseball's plan to move the Expos to Washington might come apart after the District of Columbia Council voted last night to require private financing for at least half the cost of a new ballpark.
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By AARON APPLEGATE  By AARON APPLEGATE  The Virginian-Pilot   SUFFOLK - A developer has a contract to buy about 700 acres of farmland in the central part of the city, a huge chunk of prime undeveloped real estate at the intersection of two highways near downtown.
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By Kathi Dunsmore  Editor, Times-Dispatch:  Regarding the proposed residential development on the south and northeast sides of Yowell and Elmont Roads in Hanover: As an adjacent property owner, my first and foremost concern is the density of the proposed single-family units.
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By Mary Lane Gallagher, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Feb.
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By Mark Fagan, Journal-World, Lawrence, Kan.  Dec. 12--Lawrence's largest private-sector employer is getting a new  owner as part of a $600 million deal designed to speed the company's existing  plans for growth.
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Federal regulators shut down a phony Internet bank claiming to be located in the tiny Colorado town of Bedrock - population 10 - near the Utah state line.    Through its Web site, the First National Bank of Bedrock offered deposit accounts, investments, debit cards and credit cards, according to the federal Office of the Comptroller of the Currency...
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By Rachel Cohen  SAN LORENZO -- Owners of small apartment buildings who want to fix up their property can now seek a loan from a county program that in the past has catered only to single-family properties.
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JERUSALEM, Nov. 21 -- An Israeli advocacy group has found that 39 percent of the land used by Jewish settlements in the West Bank is private Palestinian property, which the organization contends is a violation of international and Israeli law guaranteeing property rights in the occupied territories.
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By Lawrence Latane Iii, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Feb. 10--King William County authorities and Newport News Waterworks next week will begin raising the delicate issue of acquiring thousands of acres of private land for a proposed water reservoir.
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By Carol Hazard  The Bank of Richmond is no longer of Richmond.  Yesterday, it became part of Gateway Financial Holdings Inc.
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By Chris Conrad, Mail Tribune, Medford, Ore.  Feb. 17--Imagine Tom Lowell's surprise when he set out to log a parcel of  land just outside Gold Hill and found that someone else had done the work for  him -- and reaped the benefits.
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By JANE SIMPSON  THE country's last privately owned river has become the first stretch of water at the centre of a community buyout bid.   Locals are preparing to pay almost Pounds 20,000 a mile for the River Ugie to prevent it falling into the hands of wealthy landowners.