Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just may leave the organization for New York. Maybe Dave Cowens will follow Red out the front door, as is suspected currently. Maybe Dave Cowens and/or JoJo White will follow Red out the front door, as is also suspected, currently. Maybe then, the Boston fans will scorn the new ownership and Brown's dreams will go up in smoke. Maybe San Diego will again fail to support the new team and this whole affair will be one large, sad joke...
...least 8,000 new six-room houses with electricity. The housing is a better offer than Sowetans have experienced up to now, but there are catches: under terms of the 99-year leases, a father could not hand down a house through his family. Also, the government retains ownership of the land, and thus still has a legal weapon to dispossess black dissidents...
...paper in 1974, pumped in millions of his own money to keep it afloat. Allbritton had planned to stay on as the Star's publisher for at least five years. However, last month he decided to leave the paper, to avoid possible conflict of interest problems over his ownership of WJLA-TV, a lucrative (estimated value: $100 million) local ABC affiliate that is up for license renewal with...
...hands for a top price. The $100 million Atlanta Center office and hotel complex was begun in 1973 with a $10 million participation by Kuwaiti investors; the Kuwaitis have now bought out their American partners. Two weeks ago, a consortium of European banks paid $62.5 million for one-half ownership of Houston's tallest building, a 50-story office tower at One Shell Plaza, and the 29-story Two Shell Plaza...
...high that they cannot afford the life their parents led. Complains Vernon Conrad, vice president of California's Fresno County farm bureau: "Buying by outsiders is taking away the family-based farming communities that have helped make this country what it is." Laws preventing or limiting foreign ownership of land have been enacted in Nebraska, Indiana and Iowa, and the Illinois legislature this week will consider a prohibition of its own. There are enough loopholes to enable foreigners to avoid the restrictions, but doing so may become tougher in the future...