Word: ownership
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Beyond all that, Polk is a leader in publishing city directories and listing every person over 18 in every house hold in 1,400 cities by name, occupation, sex, and ownership or rental situation. From this enormous mass of information, the company is able to offer any paying customer an increasing variety of mailing lists, market research and area studies. Currently it rents names and particulars at the annual rate of $60 million...
...than Jackie, he caroms around the world carrying only a battered attaché case and a gold-embossed red leather appointment book. Duplicate sets of clothing await him at his pieds-à-terre in Paris (on the Avenue Foch), London (Claridge's), Montevideo, Athens and Manhattan (the Pierre). Under his ownership, Olympic Airways?on which he holds a charter from the Greek government until A.D. 2004?is an ever-ready magic carpet...
...soared 30% this year) has driven up the total price of for-sale homes in many areas much faster than rents have climbed. Labor Department figures show that the cost of renting in the Los Angeles area, for example, has risen 12% since 1960, while the cost of home ownership has gone...
...fields but backed down after his victory. A year ago, his government began claiming that IPC owed $144 million in back taxes, the total amount of profits that the company earned in Peru during the previous 15 years. Then the two sides struck the August compromise: Peru would take ownership of the fields, but IPC would help operate them under contract. Simultaneously, the government scrubbed its $144 million claim and gave IPC the right to expand its operations elsewhere. That was hardly the sort of get-tough deal favored by the rebellious military men-or by Peruvians in general...