Word: owners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sinsemillas craze has crossed the border into northern California, where Humboldt County police claim that pot cultivation jumped this year by 500%. In small towns like Garberville, marijuana has assumed an influential role in local business. Says Ted Kogon, owner of the Evergreen Natural Foods and Access Store: "Every shop along Main Street is underwritten with dope money." Hyperbole perhaps, but many local citizens are convinced that the weed has boosted prosperity. "If it's ever legalized, it will be a great industry for this county," asserts Rick Nelson, managing editor of the regional daily Times-Standard...
...downtrodden in Washington's most frustrating Cabinet post, at a salary of $66,000. Yet he enjoys his official chauffeur-driven car, insists on flying cross-country first class, lives in a $182,000 house. And when he watches the Washington Redskins, he sits in the box beside Owner Edward Bennett Williams...
...buys property with an eye to razing it, creating a site for construction of new University facilities. Such property is usually permitted to run down, because there's no sense in paying steep maintenance costs if the building will eventually be torn down. Landbanking can potentially turn an owner into a slumlord; the building is only secondary to the property value...
...present firm will be dissolved and replaced by a holding company, called Volvo (Svenskt-Norskt) and composed of two divisions. The Swedish branch will have 60% of the shares and appoint six directors to the ten-seat board; the Norwegian wing will own 40% and name four board members. Owners of Volvo stock will be given shares in the Swedish operation; half of the shares of the new Norwegian branch will be sold to the public, with the rest going to the Norwegian government, which is expected to become the single biggest shareholder in the binational corporation, ahead of even...
...middle-class housewife trying to get her accountant husband to loosen up a little; a singer looking for her big break; the deejay in his glass booth worrying that the Commodores' instruments won't arrive in time for their live broadcast performance; the joint's owner looking for a lady on whom to exercise his distinctly resistible charms for a one-night stand; various other stud: looking for the action; various sweeties looking for the same...