The parceling of land to individual households would be kept secret, they agreed.

"There's not enough flesh or enough cooking time to even out an erratic parceling," he explained.

Barney, I think you have all that stuff and you figure on parceling it out over the years to the autograph trade."

After the parceling of the land around the Forks of Buffalo, interest in the area increased as did the population.

This equal parceling of the land became the trademark geometric shape of Nahalal.

"The Harrahs and their Black kin will not take it well, your parceling out of their property."

It also has allowed the parceling of the cease-fire zone into a grid system so that officers can be held accountable for movement in designated areas.

He was the enemy, with his recommendations for a parceling of territories, Jerusalem included, that they were convinced would mean quick death for the fledgling state.

Konarski supported the idea of land reform in the form of parceling out aristocratic estates among the poor peasants, and opposed the clergy.

And this year, in contrast, there were no efforts to disguise huge donations by parceling them out as smaller gifts from a dozen different dummy subsidiary companies.

The structure of big pharmaceutical companies, which do everything from basic research to manufacturing to parceling out samples to doctors, makes it naturally prone to use outsourcing.

The parceling out of "gift children" by poor, hard-pressed families to friends and relatives in more comfortable circumstances is a longstanding tradition among black migrants from rural Mississippi.

For weeks the legislators have swapped and logrolled on the solemn subject of capital punishment in ways more suitable to parceling out pork-barrel projects to their districts.

Or was it just more of the same parceling out of fortunes that had brought us this far, to this place where our path would finally divide into two?

But workers dreaming of owning a home of their own were willing to risk their fortunes after Mexico City put restrictions on construction and the parceling of lots into subdivisions.

Senator David Paterson, the new leader of the Democratic minority in the Senate, has vowed to do things differently, parceling out offices and member items by need more than by favoritism.

"The size, plus the parceling of the money, puts pressure on the candidates to do the right thing," said John Welch, Latin America economist at WestLB in New York.

The move has been widely debated in the press as a compromise between conservatives' efforts to prevent the parceling out of the state-controlled farms and progressives' demands for a totally free market in land.

Nowadays the museum is situated in the upscale Nairobi suburb of "Karen," a town that was created by the parceling out of the coffee farm's land after Blixen's return to Denmark.

Maya did not expect that it would last; it was in the metanats' interest to hold together, to make sure it was always a matter of parceling out the available resources and never fighting for them.

With his appointments and parceling out of U.S. aid, for the past three years he has split the ethnic opposition, undercut the most dangerous warlord and built a coalition that ran a winning campaign.

The unrest caused the destruction of the local castle by the Duke of Brabant, the move of the ruling Grimbergen lord to nearby Ninove, and the parceling of his territory.

In 1947 he headed Britain's delegation to the Organization for European Economic Cooperation, a 16-nation conference in Paris that drafted recommendations for parceling out American aid under the Marshall Plan.

He says he might like to direct movies someday, and he has been writing scripts for short amateur features, parceling out the parts among his friends and shooting the action in and around his house.

Inside another office, three brothers surnamed Aziz sat on the floor parceling bank notes from the feed bags of bills that arrive periodically on the backs of human carriers from Pakistan, six hours away by car.