Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This emboldened OPEC's other members. They began to forge a unified policy and price, making significant gains: insisting on ever-increasing royalties from the companies and a growing degree of ownership of the oil reserves. Its power also increased because the world's growing oil demand changed a buyers' market into a sellers' market. During last year's Middle East crisis, OPEC achieved its greatest success when Arab members imposed an embargo, demonstrating how dependent the world had become on the cartel...
...this sense, of a future blossoming from the seeds of a past, that the experiment of Chile has so firmly grasped the minds of people in the Western world. Workers accustomed to slaving in factories for subsistence-level wages seized control of their places of work and planned common ownership. Field laborers in the rural areas forced their way onto large plantations and marked off plots of land they could cultivate themselves. And, in the slums surrounding Santiago, Chileans took a new pride in their past, setting up schools and community centers to make their children aware of their cultural...
...would like to use the intellectual capacity of France to invent, to organize a genuinely liberal advanced society. Why do I say liberal? It could be socialist. But the French nature, instinct and behavior are profoundly based upon individual freedom, and the feeling of security acquired through individual ownership. Sometimes it borders on anarchy, as you know...
...occasionally be appropriate to discuss what the nation's news organizations have in common, but they are as dissimilar as snowflakes in their size, influence, outlook, purpose, ownership and audience. That diversity is too of ten overlooked these days, as the editors of CJR proved convincingly in the same issue. Not counting Bailey's one-page lament, the word "media" is used at least 24 times as a monolithic collective, and two of those references are grammatically faulty...
Growing Consensus. The Supreme Court could yet rule on the question of ownership. Leon Friedman, professor of criminal law at Hofstra University, points out that if Congress were to direct a GSA custodian to take possession of the papers and tapes and Nixon challenged the move, the question would then go to the courts. No matter who is given title, there may still be disputes over access to the material. If the Government is declared the owner, Ford could prevent the release of any materials not subpoenaed. Should Nixon be granted ownership, he could try to deny access by claiming...