Word: ownership
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...investment, gold has other severe drawbacks. It is costly to store, insure and assay, and it yields no interest. Nonetheless, dealers are gearing up for a big business with private American investors when ownership becomes legal. Americans already are avidly and legally buying gold coins, and some stores are selling as jewelry ⅛oz. bar-shaped pendants ($45 at Cartier's in Manhattan or twice the value of the gold itself). Come Jan. 1, Americans will also be offered gold-warehouse receipts and shares in mutual funds that will buy bullion. They may even get a chance...
...words "national socialism," whose abbreviation terrorized the world during the Second World War, still have a negative connotation in this country. Thus they never enter into Walter Heitmann's discussion of the Chilean economy. But his references to national ownership of resources, of worker participation in management, and the social function of corporations, together with his firm belief in capitalism and foreign investment, make Heitmann a clear, if unconscious, heir of the ideologies prevalent in the '20s, '30s and '40s, when leaders in Italy and Germany espoused a corporatism whereby all groups would contribute an essential share to the health...
...aggression are common to all libertarians. Their basic political axiom is that no man, including representatives of governments, may initiate the use of force against the person or property of another. This is centered around a crucial libertarian tenet that each person should have complete control or ownership over his own life. Every man is free to enter into any voluntary contract or agreement that he believes will benefit his life...
...consent decree, which suggests Government approval of Bell's ownership of Western Electric, casts a long shadow. In any case, antitrust officials concede privately that they are so uncertain about the possible economic impact if they succeed in their suit that they are undecided as to how hard they should press for their maximum demands. Says one Antitrust Division spokesman: "We're leaving enough room to avoid any possibility of financial destruction of the company or destruction of the national telephone system...
...total ban on private ownership of handguns through federal legislation is inevitable. It is only a matter of time before the citizens of this country will refuse to tolerate the untold suffering and loss of life caused by the absence of such a law. The basic issue is: How much do we value human life...