Word: interests
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Onassis' canny business dealings have helped fuel such sentiments. In 1952, he alienated his friend Prince Rainier of Monaco by quietly buying up a majority interest in the Société des Bains de Mer, which runs the Monte Carlo Casino. His reason: he had been snubbed in his search for office space. When he finally sold his interest back to Rainier, he cleared $5,000,000. In a 1954 attempt to monopolize the Saudi Arabian oil market, he made a deal with King Saud that would have given him exclusive rights to ship that country's petroleum. He thus brought...
Nixon and Humphrey have both assigned volunteer experts to the thankless task of turning out thoughtful if largely unread position papers on all sorts of topics: black capitalism, the problems of aging, rural redevelopment. But most are aimed at small special-interest groups, and if the press reports them, such pronouncements usually wind up in puny paragraphs between the obituaries and the recipes. Above all, candidates give short shrift to many issues because the people themselves are uninterested. Talk about the gold outflow or trade protectionism makes audiences nod and yawn. It is a political axiom, and one of democracy...
...resolution of support, the Cabinet said: "This slate of directors will be able and willing to direct the Coop to bring about changes of policy which PBH feels are of vital interest to its own concern as a community oriented organization...
...resolution fails to confront these issues. Its standard for the University is one of "fairness," allowing an open market-place in which the military, as well as other interests, can function. We reject the notion that the University must welcome the instruments of repression in the name of freedom or the narrow self-interest of some Harvard students...
...rights, responsibilities and restrictions-and, indeed, on just who qualifies as an insider. For years, the definition came from Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which rather narrowly considers as an insider any corporate director or officer, or any stockholder with more than a 10% stock interest. Primarily, Section 16 prohibits short-swing trading-buying and selling stocks within a six-month period...