Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Morgan leans back in his chair, gulps a drink of his third glass of wine and takes a big breath. "When the federal government starts sending in registrars and enforcing the laws already on the books, when the North accepts the social responsibility that goes with the ownership of all the corporate wealth in the South, when Harvard and all the Harvards take the stewardship of their Southern investments as a social concern that is equal to their concern for the education of young men--that's when someone in the South who's a normal human being wedded...
...Unterman, twelve black-coated rabbis solemnly recited their afternoon prayers and then sold several thousand acres of Israeli farm land to a smiling Arab sheik in return for his promissory note for 500,000 Israeli pounds. In exchange for a deposit of $17 down, the rabbis handed over legal ownership of the property to Abdullah Abu Kishek, then toasted the transaction with soda...
...revised bill of sale purportedly representing the true value of the land-which would be several million pounds more than he bargained for. Sheik Abdullah will do his part gracefully. He will protest his inability to pay, demand his release from the bargain, and return the deeds of ownership. The rabbinate will then give him back his $17, and the Israelis once again will own their land...
...real motive behind American involvement in Vietnam is the desire to keep the world safe for the American way of ownership. This system for most Americans has been at least superficially good but for much of the world it has not. The only course left open by the powerful forces of American imperialism is revolution by the oppressed peoples of the world. To condemn the war in Vietnam without giving at least qualified and reasoned support to the National Liberation Front is to leave the issue undecided and is indicative of misconception and confusion...
...rises spread across both consumer and industrial areas of the economy. The consumer price index last week inched upward to a record 110.2% of the 1957-59 average (up a modest 1.9% from a year earlier), largely because of the higher costs of auto insurance, home ownership and meat. Without the recent federal excise tax cuts-75% to 80% of which have been passed on to the consumer-the index would have pushed even higher. Wholesale prices rose to a new record in July, gaining 2.5% over a year ago. Raw-material prices have risen 10% in the past year...