Word: owner
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...fishing has been crippling. After tests showed possible contamination, Alaskan authorities canceled the fishing seasons for herring, herring roe and pot shrimp throughout Prince William Sound. The salmon season, due to start in mid-May, remains in doubt. "Sure, Exxon may pay in the end," fumed Sandy Cesarini, co-owner of the Sea Hawk Seafood Co. in Valdez. "But we sweated blood to build this place. What about the future? Everyone in the sound feels violated...
...fact, the chemical workers' union and othersaccuse Mobil of misrepresenting its divestmentfrom South Africa. They charge that the companymay have sold its plants though it retainedlicensing agreements and allowed the new owner touse the Mobil logo...
...reluctant owner of these properties, and tens of thousands more, is the U.S. Government. A federal stockpile of distressed real estate holdings is suddenly growing to an unprecedented and ominous size as Government regulators seize insolvent savings and loan associations and commercial banks. President Bush's plan to bail out the S & L industry, which won Senate approval last week by a vote of 91 to 8 and now faces House consideration, calls for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to take over some 400 hopelessly ill thrifts and sell off their real estate in the next few years. During this...
...pairs of pure, uncarved African elephant tusks were expected to bring their owner between $20,000 and $28,000 in an auction last week at Sotheby's in New York City. But they never made it to the block. Last week Sotheby's not only withdrew the tusks from sale but promised to stop dealing in elephant tusks or any jewelry, furniture or artwork containing ivory that is less than 50 years old. The change of heart was inspired by an outcry that began soon after the tusks appeared in Sotheby's catalog. Clients and environmentalists said the sale would...
Sotheby's removed the tusks from the market by buying them from the unidentified owner, and will donate them to a museum. "We will never again sell elephant tusks," said Michael Ainslie, president of Sotheby's. "We would hope it sets an example." Environmental groups hope so as well. The U.S. imports about $30 million worth of ivory annually. Much of it is illegally harvested in a slaughter that each year wipes out nearly 100,000 of Africa's elephants, reducing their current numbers to as few as 600,000. To cut demand, the African Wildlife Foundation, a Washington-based...