Word: ownership
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...licensed to operate at the state's 15 tracks. One goal of the search: to check all links to Gerard, who investigators think may have owned horses racing in the state through front men. Veterinarians licensed to practice at state tracks are barred from such conflict-of-interest ownership...
Economic growth must be distributed more equitably. Typically, in most of the developing countries, the upper 20% of the population receives 55% of the national income, and the lowest 20% receives 5%. In the rural areas, this is reflected in the concentration of land ownership. According to a survey by the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization, the wealthiest 20% of the land owners in most developing countries own between 50% and 60% of the cropland. The roughly 100 million small farms in the developing world-those less than 5 hectares-are concentrated on only 20% of the cropland...
Frustrated because his people did not want an African colony, Leopold set up a series of cultural committees as a front and acquired personal ownership of millions of square miles of Central Africa. His agents then terrorized villages for the rubber and ivory that fetched high prices in Europe...
...updating the common program (TIME, Sept. 26). Ostensibly, the issue in dispute was the number of private firms to be nationalized if the leftist alliance comes to power next March. When the program was first hammered out in 1972, the parties had agreed that there should be government ownership of nine major industrial groups; the question of how many of their subsidiaries should also be nationalized was left deliberately vague. In the recent talks, the Communists demanded the takeover of 729 companies, while the Socialists insisted that no more than 227 be nationalized. The impasse on numbers reflected a serious...
...their proprietors (Bristol-Myers' Ipana toothpaste) or dedicated outright to public use (Du Font's nylon). Paradoxically, some of the most successful trademarks have been lost because of their very popularity; they became so firmly entrenched in the language that no single company could still legitimately claim ownership. Over the years, such casualties have included mimeograph, linoleum, cellophane, elevator, escalator, raisin bran and cola...