Word: ownership
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...stepped aside last year. ("The editor's indecision is final," an Astor deputy once quipped.) But the paper is still firmly plugged into the Old Boy network of Oxbridge dons, senior civil servants and other privileged subjects who have helped run Britain -and the Observer-for decades. Ownership of the Observer will give Anderson a box seat in that select circle, a valuable asset in a business as politically sensitive as oil. Indeed, Anderson has announced plans for an "international advisory council" of leading businessmen, politicians and educators to assist the paper's board of directors. "Great corporate...
Question 5 on the Massachusetts ballot was a proposed law that would have banned the private ownership of handguns. The main committee opposing it was Taxpayers Against Question 5, located at 11 Main Street in Southboro. The committee reported to the campaign finance office a total expenditure of roughly $105,000, including contributions from many local gun clubs and hunting associations, and a gift of $30,000 from the National Rifle Association in Washington, D.C. But it also reported receiving, in six installments, a total of $71,000 from a group called the Gun Owners Action League. Strangely enough...
Fine Arts 13, Introduction to the Economics of Art. Intended to increase the student's perception of the value of works of art; advantages of ownership over creation, with special reference to the tax treatment of capital gains...
...very worthwhile and perhaps life-saving measure that also met defeat on Tuesday was the proposed law banning private ownership of handguns. While only a national ban on handguns will be truly effective in stopping the violence and death that handguns are certainly the instrument, and perhaps the cause of, this law would have been a major step in that direction...
...vote against private ownership of handguns showed voters' resentment to government interference. The voters decided the government didn't have the right to ban something that causes more than 200 deaths in the state per year...