Word: ownership
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...even in many of these cases it often appeared that the Indians did not fully understand the game. Basically, says Wilbur Jacobs in Dispossessing the American Indian (1972), "the Indian saw the land as supernaturally provided for man's use and not subject to sale or individual ownership." Some Indian leaders would attest too late that they had no power to "sell" land, not as the white man understood the word. In exchange for lands conveyed by treaty, the Indians often got little more than unenduring "protection...
...author is, of course, one of the leading members of the liberal Establishment. He is also a kind of patrician socialist who argues in his new book for public ownership of urban land, public auditors instead of boards of directors for corporations, and the gift of food, housing, health care, education and money to the poor. He has a pessimistic view of human nature, but it principally applies to the rich and powerful. "People of privilege," he writes, "will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." Even F.D.R., the Squire of Hyde Park...
...Arab nationalist movement of the pre-World War II era--essentially an elitist, liberalist, Western-looking intellectual discipline--to the growth of socialist doctrine in the Arab world. He is careful to dissociate Arab "socialism" and "communism" from their terminological counterparts elsewhere. Arab socialists have often advocated private ownership (albeit regulated) as necessary for economic development; Arab communists have been wary of aligning themselves with communist states, preferring instead to regard Marxist-Leninist dogma as a malleable, practical tool for national progress and liberation rather than as an ideological ultimate in itself...
...cover 22,000 acres, subsist largely on low-paying jobs and welfare-like many whites. Originally, they demanded more than 10 million acres, or one-half of the state. But Justice puts the probable extent of their supportable claim at 5 million acres. Justice is still researching the historical ownership of some 3 million additional acres. The Indians agreed to put off claims to 2 million acres of valuable coastal property (where 40% of Maine's 1 million non-Indians live) in return for money...
...from working in the Gulf of Suez just off El Tur. Then in December, Israel set up its own costly offshore drilling rig, manned mainly by American roughnecks. Two weeks ago the Israelis began sinking another hole on the shore at El Tur, slant-drilling into the waters whose ownership it disputes...