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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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currency
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Devalued by 5 percent yesterday before currency speculators attacked it.
land
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But they will be frustrated if land speculators continue to hoard land with planning permission.
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The local recipient of the most fixes, year after year, is legendary land speculator Don Diamond.
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Mr. Truscott is faced by the demands of agribusiness and land speculators .
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And everybody should wonder why land speculators consider Oro Valley a much softer touch when they need a rezoning.
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It was lobbied by folks on the payroll of legendary land speculator Don Diamond.
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Sweet runs Oro Valley, not the council, and the land speculators and developers know it -- and obviously like it.
property
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Continuing monetary tightness is squeezing property speculators .
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There are suggestions in the judgment that the decision would have been otherwise had the buyer been a property speculator .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Experts said it was the first test for the new, small speculators who have invested heavily in dot.com enterprises.
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Governments have successfully reined in speculators before.
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Property prices continued to rise substantially faster than inflation, and there was evidence of increasing public resentment towards speculators.
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The cost would be passed on to speculators, discouraging one-way bets.
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The levy was introduced in 1992 as a way to curb rising prices driven by real estate speculators.
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The mark-up should be fair and reasonable, the speculator being reimbursed for both time and enterprise.
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The move comes at the request of 16 land owners / speculators.
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The Salt River Project in Arizona was notable for having been all but taken over by speculators.