Word: owners
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Oscar Handlin, Pforzheimer University Professor and author of the editorial, is also chairman of the 11-member editorial board and part owner of WCVB...
...sales by Textron, Inc., the conglomerate Miller currently chairs, to the government of Iran. Apparently, Textron paid a $2.9 million commission to an Iranian sales agency on a deal involving 500 helicopters made by a Textron subsidiary. Members of the Committee staff claim it is common knowledge that the owner of that sales agency was none other than the commander of the Iranian Air Force and the Shah's brother. In previous testimony, Miller denied knowledge of the involvement of the Shah's brother with the commission, but the seemingly minor incident raises some questions about...
...research projects often will not yield a return until well into what businessmen see as an uncertain future. Both the rise in hurdle rates and the decline in R. and D. indicate that the hired managers who run corporations today are more fearful of taking risks than the venturesome owner-managers...
...everyone. He's been very good to us. My Daddy says it's been hard work, running the mine and another one he has. It is just as hard to run a mine as it is to go down and dig coal. I'm glad my father is the owner though. I wouldn't want him to get killed or hurt bad down there, way underground. Daddy has given us a good life. We have a lot of fun coming up, he says, in the next few years. We're going on some trips. Daddy deserves his vacations. He says...
...Store owners arrange their offerings in various patterns to specify how and for how long the lion is to dance. Lee says the more complicated the pattern of oranges, tangerines and lettuce that the owner displays, the longer the lion is supposed to dance. A gift set up on a table or chair symbolizes that the lion has to cross a bridge and demands a dance exhibiting greater skills than are ordinarily required...