Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Occupied by the British in 1833, they have been claimed ever since by Argentina, which calls the islands the Malvinas. The ownership issue has been debated before the OAS, the U.N., and even in postage stamps put out by both nations. Every Argentine schoolboy is brought up on the slogan that "the Malvinas are Argentina's." Last week a band of young Argentine nationalists decided the time had come for action...
...Funston has been much more than that. Besides plugging stock ownership and introducing the monthly investment plan for small shareholders, he raised the number of listed companies from 1,100 to 1,300. This increase, plus the great expansion in trading and a number of operational efficiencies introduced by Funston, put the exchange's activities into the profit column after years of losses. He invested heavily in automation to increase the speed and accuracy of transactions, helped persuade listed companies to release more informative reports to shareholders, and forced companies to make every common stock a voting stock. When...
...McDonald served notice on Times Publisher Ruth Sulzberger Golden that he wanted out. Since the Times by then had acquired full ownership of the plant, McDonald needed another building. Last May he found one, and no sooner had he moved in last week than he started producing the Sunday edition that had been suspended under his agreement with the Times. Mrs. Golden fought back by bringing out the afternoon Post...
...enough, and many Russians even today have a lingering prejudice against private property. Such an attitude, of course, could put a serious crimp in the Kremlin's ambitious plans to create a consumer-oriented economy. Last week Izvestia attempted through sleight of mind to remove the stigma of ownership from Marxist-Leninist doctrine...
Lenin's prohibition of private ownership, declared Izvestia, applied only to the bad old days when capitalists were exploiting the workers. But now that there are no longer exploiters and exploited, "whoever thinks personal property means private ownership is in grave error." In fact, explained Izvestia in a wild ideological leap, "there is no gap between private and public ownership. Personal property is just another form of common ownership, both belonging together like the roots and leaves of the trees...