Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Peretz, who assumed active ownership of his magazine in the fall, saw his editor-in-chief--former publisher Gilbert A. Harrison--quit. Peretz said that the magazine had become a "one-man show" under Harrison, a charge that was directed against Peretz himself later this year...
...President Bok in the aftermath of a Mass Hall takeover in 1972 over the University's ownership of stock in Gulf Oil--which had extensive holdings in the then-Portuguese colony of Angola--the ACSR had one opportunity this year to give a general opinion on corporate responsibility: its April response to a Securities and Exchange Commission ruling soliciting investors' opinions on amending present corporate disclosure regulations...
...decorator, in a plum-cake version of stockbroker's plush). Lehman's paintings, now that they are public, would have looked better in a clean, airy, comprehensible museum space than in this red velvet warren. No service to art is done by preserving the symbolism of private ownership in a public precinct; in a museum, paintings and sculpture deserve - indeed, demand - to be experienced as unedited messages from the painter to the viewer, rather than as things colored by the presence of this or that owner. In that regard, the Lehman be quest has set a precedent that...
France managed to save some face and preserve an image of national ownership. It will own 17% of Compagnie Internationale pour I'lnformatique "CII-Honeywell Bull." The deal also commits Honeywell to sell 19% of its interest in Honeywell Bull to the French government and CGE for "about" $60 million. Eventually, 53% of Honeywell Bull stock will be in French hands, but Honeywell, with its resources and familiarity with the U.S. market, will remain the dominant partner. Beyond that, the French government will endow the company with slightly less than $300 million -mainly in the form of research contracts...
Pipes's whole thesis rests on the premise that the "patrimonial" regime the Muscovite princes created in the fourteenth century, in which the rights of sovereignty and those of ownership were indistinguishable, has not been effectively challenged down to the present day. But his detailed account of centuries of absolutism seems less like the topical history of Russia its title suggests than an article in Pravda, where events don't seem to change things much and where all the loose ends are neatly woven together. Pipes leaves the loose ends out entirely, examining Imperial Russia's various social classes from...