Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...companies, in fact, were among the biggest losers of 1974. The four U.S. partners in Aramco had to agree late in the year to sell their remaining 40% ownership to Faisal's government. It will pay the partners $2 billion for almost all their facilities, a price that the Saudis can meet with less than one month's oil earnings. The Saudi takeover will move Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates to nationalize the last of the Western oil operations in those areas, probably this year. The companies will become mere agents, selling technical and marketing services...
...Party's most effective and innovative Governors-and one of its more painful embarrassments. In McCall's eight years in office, Oregon adopted one of the nation's first comprehensive land-use plans, banned nonreturnable beverage containers, placed its entire 300-mile shore line in state ownership to protect it from developers and publicly discouraged the influx of new residents and even tourists. It also summarily closed a polluting paper-pulp plant and forced other firms to comply with tough environmental standards...
...assumed that Daley will triumph in the primary as well as in the general election in April, where, so far, no substantial Republican opposition has been found for him. Though no scandal has touched Daley personally, questions have been raised in the press about the propriety of his secret ownership with his wife of a real estate holding company that made purchases of vacant lots in a city auction. He has freely acknowledged influencing the placement of millions of dollars worth of city insurance with an agency that employed one of his sons. Neither issue is expected to have much...
Pets, notably dogs, cats and some birds, can, if treated sensibly, be pleasant, undemanding, entertaining consorts. During wars, insurrections and depressions, particularly, pet ownership seems to proliferate. Aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution claimed in some cases that they had lived because their dogs had repelled or mollified would-be assassins. Even in today's recession-inflation battered economy, when the care and feeding of pets would seem an exorbitant load on the family budget, there are more and more pet owners in the U.S.-deriving, perhaps, psychological sustenance from what Kipling called the dog's "love unflinching...
...Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists proposes as a next step higher licensing fees and fines for violations of leash laws, to "encourage more responsible pet ownership"; the added revenue would go to sterilization clinics. The authors also advocate a tax on pet food-1% would yield $25 million a year-to be used, for example, to finance shelters for abandoned or unwanted pets and underwrite educational programs. Pet lovers have also urged the creation of compulsory high school courses and adult seminars in animal behavior...