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...minister to the dying. He was a powerful spiritual author, yet his words on other occasions were so scatological that no Lutheran periodical would print them today. His writing was hardly systematic, and his output runs to more than 100 volumes. On the average, Luther wrote a major tract or treatise every two weeks throughout his life...
...told customers that for $8,784 they could buy chances to get leases on 48 different parcels of land, competing against only six to eight people per tract. None of those other six or eight, the telephone salesmen promised, would be clients of U.S. Oil and Gas. In reality, 1,000 people or more were pitted against one another in the lotteries for most tracts, and in at least one case, two-thirds of the competitors were clients of U.S. Oil and Gas. Of each $8,784 investment that the company took in, $3,600 was used for Government filing...
Further out from the Square, work started this past spring in the previously vast tract of empty space near the Kennedy School of Government. About $100 million is being poured into two office/condominium projects which should, by the end of 1984, increase the Square's office space by one-third. The condominiums will sell from $150,000 to $750,000 each. A third project in that area is the overhaul of the Coolidge Bank--currently operating out of a trailer while its structure gets rebuilt. That work should be completed later this year...
...Environment. Offshore oil-tract leasing procedures and toxic-substance regulations could be overruled by House or Senate. Any federal sale of land parcels larger than 2,500 acres could be scotched. In 1981 Interior Secretary James Watt was stopped by a House committee from leasing mineral rights to 1.5 million acres of Montana wilderness...
...major failure cited by city officials was their inability after repeated haggling, to come up with a zoning proposal for the last large tract of undeveloped land in the city Cambridgeport, which is located between MIT and the Charles River. The council Monday rejected two proposals to zone the area...