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There are certain so-called unneighbourly developments which have to be advertised before a valid application can be made.

The USA was singled out for criticism over "its unneighbourly actions against Cuba" and urged to lift its economic embargo.

But, mind you, both Oppley and Stouch are saying unneighbourly things about some of us that they've noticed, though they appear to have no idea of the real scale.

The planning authority also has to advertise locally any proposals involving large buildings (those more than 20 metres high), or any 'unneighbourly uses'- such as a casino, scrap yard, cemetery or slaughterhouse - and put up a notice on the site itself.

"Putting paratroopers on American soil seems to be a hell of an unneighborly thing to do.

Now, feelings are bruised and ire is up because of the unneighborly anonymous letter writer.

I'd say our motherless visitor displays a definitely unneighborly attitude."

Here in Easton, the story is playing out again, in a most unneighborly way.

Nor does he question whether the unneighborly distance of this encounter is the desirable end of either black or white social development.

I DID a very unneighborly thing recently.

"Halt unneighborly theft," it said.

In a classic tale from the trenches of contemporary Manhattan comes a conflict over real estate, suspicions of influence and unneighborly friction.

The Republican candidates for the United States Senate barely uttered an unneighborly word about one another in their debate on Monday.

Humor sneaks in with "Pies" (1983), also this weekend, in which two unneighborly neighbors duke it out with baked goods.

When Ottawa got angry at this unneighborly warheads-across-the-border plan, John Kennedy grumbled: "Everyone ought to run for office.

The barrier near San Ysidro has engendered resentment among some Mexican officials, who have portrayed its construction as an "unneighborly act."

New York City Transit Authority officials are still fuming over Connecticut's unneighborly issuance of 17.5-cent turnpike tokens that also worked in $1 subway turnstiles.

But it is the fight against unneighborly jealousies and social hypocrisies, the childlike urge to tattle and connive, that members smilingly admit to as the true daily cross.

But that latter-day soap opera doesn't immediately lend itself to the action needs of a video game, and that may explain the downright unneighborly reaction among gamers and fans of the show.

Border War Over Bank Move After Connecticut lured away Swiss Bank, New York City bought ads in Connecticut newspapers decrying the "unneighborly raid."

But he cited a recent instance in which, after an unneighborly dispute, the board at 400 West End Avenue added a provision "that they could not play more than two consecutive hours without taking a two-hour break."

The Boatyard has generated the most antipathy because of its location - directly on the water - because of its unneighborly security gates, and because of what it replaced: the United Shipyards.

In heated response Aitchbone, a practiced conniver, dispatches Hardihood, the local librarian (as isolated in her way as Dornick is in his), to persuade the unneighborly neighbor to clean up this residential blight.

The deal, which included tax breaks that could amount to $120 million over 10 years, so incensed New York City officials that they took out large advertisements in Connecticut newspapers to denounce Stamford's "blatant and unneighborly raid."

Just weeks after losing a spirited battle to keep Swiss Bank from leaving Manhattan, the Giuliani administration has taken out large display ads in Connecticut newspapers urging Connecticut residents to reject "this blatant and unneighborly raid."

The justifications for such an unneighborly policy have varied, but they seem mainly to reflect our rage in the face of Fidel Castro's refusal to accept our Monroe Doctrine, his unwillingness to accede to any United States hegemony over his little country merely because geography placed it in our front yard.