Sometimes governments agree to spread the settlement amount over several years, in which case a business pays no property taxes until the repayment is complete.
Until recently the "ecolimits" beyond which the slums were not supposed to spread were marked by metal cables running around the edge of the settlements.
To spread the pro-consumer message, the industry might do better simply to run advertisements featuring real customers with settlement-fattened wallets.
At the start of this period, the urban area was confined to a triangular area bounded by the city's historic center, Callao and Chorrillos; in the following decades settlements spread to the north, beyond the Rímac River, to the east, along the Central Highway, and to the south.
Israelis drive on highways to settlements spreading like garrisons on hills.
Tzipi Livni, the Israeli minister in charge of negotiations with the Palestinians, cautioned in a recent speech that potential boycotts "won't stop at the settlements" but will spread "to all of Israel" because it is seen as a "colonialist country".
The Nun Nadi watershed is close to the Dehradun city and some settlements are spread over the Mussoorie hills.
In my walks around town, I encountered three dog settlements that spread over several acres, and behind my hotel there was a small satellite encampment.
"Azerbaijan is going to be crucial in understanding how trade expanded through this region in medieval times and how much-earlier Bronze Age settlements here spread as far as southern Iraq and Israel," said Jennifer R. Pournelle, program manager for the international archaeology project of the University of California at San Diego.
In contrast, settlements had spread and prospered in the foothills of the Darling Scarp, and on 1 July 1853, Colonial Secretary Frederick Barlee announced a new proposal for a Perth Pinjarra Bunbury route along the foothills, with a width, mostly following the alignment of previous tracks.
