Word: ownership
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...General Omar Torrijos Herrera, who seized power from the old oligarchy nine years ago. At 48, he has led Panama through its longest period of internal stability by a combination of stirring leftist rhetoric and a pragmatic respect for free enterprise. His philosophy can embrace almost anything -from government ownership of mines and industry to a hospitable climate for foreign banks, 70 of which have established branches in Panama, with assets of around $12 billion...
Coke officials have no objection to turning majority ownership of their Indian subsidiary over to Indians. But they insist that Coke must retain firm control of the quality of drink produced and, above all, the syrup-making secrets. The original Coke formula, so goes company gossip, is kept in a vault in a Georgia bank and is known to no more than ten people in the world. The formula contains an ingredient called 7X, which no one has managed to duplicate. The Indian government's view is that the 1973 law obliges all foreign-owned companies-European as well...
...attack No. 8. Yet more than 25,000 yellow Volkswagens are registered in New York State, and police have little confidence that state computers can narrow the number of owners who also roughly fit the killer's age range and physical description. The job of tracing ownership of the 28,000 Bulldog revolvers made by Charter Arms Corp. of Stratford, Conn., over the past five years is similarly hopeless; at least 600 were reported stolen before reaching retail outlets, and police estimate at least half of the rest were sold illegally or without their sale being recorded...
...Lance's problem is his ownership of 200,767 shares in the National Bank of Georgia, where he presided before going to OMB. Lance...
Samed is expected to eventually turn a comfortable profit-something that appeals more and more to the P.L.O.'s fiscal managers. The organization has put together what amounts to an estimated $60 million to $100 million investment portfolio; current holdings include ownership of two Beirut hotels, a 500-room youth hostelry under construction in Cairo, shares in shipyards, oil tankers and television stations abroad, as well as blue-chip holdings in U.S. companies that operate in the Middle East. Some of this money has even been used for the quiet purchase of land on the West Bank that local...