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Beyond the resting year commanded in the Torah, there are prescribed tithing years that further ensure sharing the land's bounty among various classes of people, and every harvest is marked by leaving the corners of the field for the poor to reap.

Economic Systems, the Bible and a Just Community 2012

However, sudden large concentrations of people living in the crowded camps that emerge during conflict or after natural disasters can rapidly deplete the land's carrying capacity and make it difficult for the environment to recover.

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Mr. Yu estimates that local officials have seized about 16.6 million acres of rural land (more than the entire state of West Virginia) since 1990, depriving farmers of about two trillion yuan ($314 billion) due to the discrepancy between the compensation they receive and the land's real market value.

Land Dispute in China Town Sparks Revolt Jeremy Page 2011

The system multiplies a land's car parking capacity by 16: If a plot can take 50 cars, the automated system can take 800.

Auto-Parking: Bid Adieu To Long Queues And Wasted Fuel 2011

In reality, local authorities often hatch those deals secretly with village officials, change the land's status from rural to urban to allow construction, and then sell the land-use rights to property developers at an enormous profit, according to experts in the field.

Land Dispute in China Town Sparks Revolt Jeremy Page 2011

What the audience takes in -- some ticket buyers enthusiastically, others not so, from what I could tell -- is an in-your-face belittling of part of the land's checkered past.

David Finkle: First Nighter: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Is Bloody Awful David Finkle 2010

The government would also have to pay those booted off an interest rate of up to 15% annually of the land's market value, from the date a purchase is announced until the land is acquired.

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"And the land's impossible, with Zaragoza's and Villa's men on the loot and maybe fraternizing," Davies agreed.

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What the audience takes in -- some ticket buyers enthusiastically, others not so, from what I could tell -- is an in-your-face belittling of part of the land's checkered past.

David Finkle: First Nighter: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Is Bloody Awful David Finkle 2010

Under Chinese law, local governments can acquire farmland for construction projects that are "in the public interest" in exchange for compensation based on a multiple of the land's agricultural yield, rather than its market value.

Land Dispute in China Town Sparks Revolt Jeremy Page 2011