Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this standard, Bell and the Public Interest crowd--at least half of them past or present Harvard professors--seem mild. None of them so much as implies that Social Security should be made voluntary, labor unions broken up or every conceivable public project turned over to private ownership; nor are they hysterically anti-Communist. But taken together, these two volumes reveal the emergence of an American intellectual Right on the European model, basing its conservatism on a collective--rather than an individualist--understanding of society...
...does not seem proud of its corporate connections. Last week, the Massachusetts Attorney General's office took Bic's to court and obtained a conseint judgment to force the store not to conceal its Brigham's ownership from customers. According to Paula Gold, chief of the state Consumer Protection division and attorney in the case, Bic's had "failed to disclose the true nature of its enterprise," an "unfair and deceptive practice" prohibited by the state Consumer Protection...
...acre. The kids with college degrees are coming back home to the farms. There are more jobs in the small towns The corporate giants are planning to acquire more land, and some state legislatures like the one in Iowa, are battling back by setting up corporate-ownership limits to help preserve the family units. It is another drama of change, with potential for pain and fraud, but richer still with portents for renewed American pride
Convinced that some federal regulatory agencies have become champions of monopoly, Harris wants to abolish many of them. Where it proved necessary, he would support outright government ownership of private industry. He would provide more steeply graduated individual and corporate income taxes to get "the rich off welfare" and "the big hogs out of the trough...
...Reader's Digest Association which sold one-third of its Canadian operation in 1968 has steadfastly refused to meet the 75% ownership rule. The firm also refuses to change the editorial content of its Canadian edition or to give effective editorial control to Canadians. As E. Paul Zimmerman, president of the Reader's Digest Association (Canada) Ltd., said last week: "We cannot survive under the present terms of Bill C-58, and we must plan for winding up our operations as soon as possible...