Word: ownership
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...only around 180, in 1973-74 the outside activity of faculty and administrators accounted for a total of 3802 "man days," a Business School report shows. A breakdown of this outside work indicates that 2294 of these days went to consulting, 708 to directorships, and 41 to trusteeships and ownership of companies...
...from Albert H. Blevins, who had bought it from the Harvard Amusement Company (was it a penny arcade? a whorehouse?). McDonough is listed as the building's sole owner until 1939, when Edward Wyner bought a stake in it; and in 1945 the building came under its present ownership, a complicated trust involving five Wyners and a few others...
Davin would also like to see an increase in public ownership of the utilities in the city--"a return to the 1930s concept of municipal socialism...
GOAL draws attention to a study by Alan Krug a Penn State professor, which concludes that areas with low gun ownership rates do not have lower crime and murder rates. In fact, Krug finds the opposite. He writes, "States with a higher proportion of the population possessing firearms have lower serious crime rates than states with a lower proportion possessing firearms." He also ran individual regression analyses on the crimes of murder, assault, and robbery and found the same results. James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government and a national crime expert, said last week there is no evidence that...
...statistics on how many crimes are prevented in this manner, but there are certainly quite a few." Cassidy says. Private handgun ownership can prevent crime when attackers are scared away or when the crime never occurs because the potential criminal fears his victim will be armed, he argues. Cassidy feels that without this deterrent effect crime rates might rise rather than fall after a handgun...