Word: owners
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...remains to the Ohlone Indians. "Indian beliefs hold ancestral remains to be sacred," wrote Stanford provost James Rosse. The result, though, was one nasty academic fight. Bert Gerow, an emeritus professor of anthropology at Stanford and curator of the remains for about 40 years, immediately announced he was the owner of most of them. Thereupon the chairman of Stanford's anthropology department, James Lowell Gibbs Jr., had the locks changed on the collection. The wrangle grew wider as scientists contemplated the loss of the bones, some up to 3,000 years old, which have long been available for study. Clement...
...cleverest devices in memory. The first piece, A Table for a King, is an exquisitely painful tale of betrayals involving a pathetically dignified Mississippi matron, a sweetly awkward American college boy recovering from a thwarted homosexual infatuation, a casually seductive waiter and the sly, implacable owner of a Greek-island hotel where all the characters are living...
...seat Parliament. The New Democrats campaigned on the promise of "catharsis," which included investigating and prosecuting political bigwigs implicated in several cases of alleged fraud that involved millions of dollars, including the embezzlement of more than $210 million from the Bank of Crete by its former owner George Koskotas...
...questionable wisdom" of bestowing absolute authority on a single person was brought up in passing by U.S. district court Judge Frank McGarr in 1977. But he used that phrase in the process of rejecting a complaint by Oakland A's owner Charlie Finley that Kuhn was wrecking him financially by arbitrarily keeping him from liquidating his team a player at a time. Judge McGarr ruled, "So broad and unfettered was the commissioner's discretion intended to be that the owners provided no right of appeal, and even took the extreme step of foreclosing their own access to the courts...
...being an owner, Rose may say he is no party to broad discretions and unfettered agreements, but distancing himself from any baseball tradition might be difficult. It is Rose's place in that tradition, the fact that he is an embodiment of his game, that makes these circumstances so compelling...