Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have much more to do if we are to have meaningful democracy in this country--we must bring political decision-making back to the people, putting it on a scale where individuals can comprehend the issues and participate effectively. In the economy, we must replace the principle of private ownership of the means of production by democratic, social control, so that the waste and destruction that now consume our billions may end, and our vast productive resources may be devoted to the satisfaction of genuine human needs...
...export consumer goods and know-how and Russians avid for capital and technical advice. Japan's trade with Russia doubled last year to $610 million and reached $500 million for the first seven months of this year. Not even the fact that the two nations, which dispute ownership of small islands lying between northernmost Japan and the Russian-held Kuriles, have still not signed a World War II peace treaty seems to slow down the economic get-together. One reason for this is the Japanese philosophy of Seikei Bunri. That means roughly that economics and politics are separate...
...have equal voting rights in Intersputnik's council, whatever the country's size or share. Several smaller members of Intelsat resent the fact that management is heavily weighted in the U.S.'s favor, with voting rights allocated in proportion to a country's share in ownership and capital investment...
...Durants reject the gloomy view that man is in a dismal rut. Modern existence, precarious, chaotic and murderous as it is, is a vast improvement over the ignorance, superstition, violence and disease of earlier periods. They ask: Are we ready to scuttle the technology that has spread food, home ownership, comfort, education and lei sure beyond any precedent? Would we rather have lived under the laws of the Athenian Republic or the Roman Empire than under constitutions that give us habeas corpus, trial by jury, religious and intellectual freedom and the emancipation of women...
...provide an idea both of Chabrol's pragmatism and the point at which his imagination begins to make connections and build strange relationships between the characters: Paul is the legitimate heir to the Wagner champagne firm, an old and fabulously respected French wine. His father was swindled out of ownership by a man whose daughter Christine (Yvonne Furneaux) now runs the company. Paul has only rights to the name Wagner, this preventing Christine from selling the company to crass American industrialists who won't buy the firm without its famous trademark. Paul has calculately engineered the marriage of Christine...