Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they have a common vision . . . they must show results." Burlingham's biases are usually stated, which is generally true of Mother Jones articles, but the advocacy journalism sometimes hides other biases. For example, Burlingham says some people view the utility rates drive in Arkansas as "one step toward public ownership and control of the power industry." In the very next line, the writer interrupts his narrative--the first-person traumatic journalist angle is a constant problem with the magazine--to say, "(I do not mean to suggest, however, that their real purpose in promoting lifeline is to take over...
...this score, the Portuguese Socialist Party should come in for great criticism. The party, led by Mario Saores, has consistently played down the importance of socialist reform like workers' ownership of industry and agrarian reform and emphasized the Communist and far leftists' "threat to democracy." In this way the Socialists have sought moderate and conservative votes--and despite their drop over last year's election, the parliamentary voting saw them remain the largest single political force in the nation, with 35 per cent. But the result of this electoral policy is to legitimate the rightist attack on socialism, which...
...fact is, of course, that Panamanians have grown increasingly angry over the 73-year-old treaty giving the U.S. ownership of the 51-mile-long canal and control of the adjoining ten-mile-wide zone that splits Panama. With much justice, they consider the treaty a vestige of outdated colonialism...
...Panama to the eventual U.S. negotiating position, and he clearly did not want to confront the issue in an election year. If Ford lacked some political candor, his attitude nevertheless was much more sensible than Reagan's jingoistic refusal even to consider that outright, unyielding ownership of the canal may no longer serve any vital U.S. interest. Indeed, insistence upon that ownership may produce only needless hostility between the U.S. and its remaining friends in Latin America and the Third World...
...Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. (D-Mass.) filed a bill in Congress last month to transfer ownership of the land to the state...