Word: settlers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...character named Colonel Robert Hall moved to San Antonio, Texas, from his home in Tennessee. A sepia-toned photo of him is framed in Bezos' living room and shows the man wearing a bizarre outfit stitched together from dozens of different kinds of animal pelts. The settler favored that multicolored garment in later years. "When he walked down the streets of San Antonio, the crowds would part," says Jackie Bezos, Jeff's mother and the family historian...
...marketing strategy linking tourist developments with community-based tourism products and services. It is also offering tourism training and assistance, including loans and tax concessions, to small businesses. As a result, bed-and-breakfasts have become big business as well as a bargain for holiday makers. Stellenbosch, a historic settler community in a picturesque winelands region 30 miles from Cape Town, has 105 registered bed-and-breakfasts. SATOUR has issued a 254-page accommodation guide that lists 1,877 establishments. Some are luxury guest houses, but many are in the easily affordable $20-to-$30 daily bracket...
...chance of any progress before Israel's June election, the surest sign that peace with Syria may be back on the agenda was Tuesday's report of a new Israeli settlement being built on the Golan. After all, no piece of ground is more attractive to the right-wing settler movement than one they fear may be negotiated away...
...authors also invoked U.S. and Israeli support for a united Jerusalem as the capital of the settler state. However, they seem to have overlooked the international community's virtually unanimous condemnation of Israeli occupation of Arab East Jerusalem and therefore of Israel's claim to Jerusalem as its eternal, united capital...
...failing bingo hall that was a crucial source of local tax revenue. Within three years, the take of the nonprofit gaming operation had jumped to $33 million a year. Some of the proceeds went into city coffers and to charities, but much more made its way to the settlers. Moskowitz prefers to donate to specific projects rather than finance organizations blindly. "He says he wants to see results on the ground," says Yisrael Medad, a settler activist. According to some sources, as much as $18 million has come from his foundation to underwrite the budgets of settler organizations, build college...