Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year, hitched a trailer to his car and headed for California. Two years later he was back in school, still eager to pursue medicine but also possessing some valuable souvenirs of his stop-out period, including a pilot's license, a fair knowledge of American literature, and the ownership of a computer software firm that grossed $300,000 last year...
Efforts to protect the birds are already being undertaken by the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management, which controls the 26,311 acres of riverside land now in public ownership. Andrus has taken some action to safeguard the raptors and their region by placing an expanded area, covering more than 800,000 acres and 65 river miles, under "temporary protective withdrawal" while BLM Biologists study the birds and their needs...
Even police estimates of crowd size varied, from a low of 2500 to a high of more than 4000. But give or take 1000, it was clearly the largest demonstration at Harvard since 1972, when black students occupied Mass Hall for a week to protest Harvard's ownership of stock in the Gulf Oil Company, which had large operations in Angola...
...among other things, is trying to figure out what to write his dissertation on. He has watched the Sha Na Na television show once--just to see if he would be embarrassed--and his only other contact with the group since quitting involved a messy three year lawsuit over ownership rights...
...without rancor. In the spring of '73, Joffe and a few of the other original members filed suit against the remaining members of the group, figuring that if those who had stayed wished to view the group strictly as a business venture, they would have to pay for the ownership rights. The suit was finally settled out of court three years later...