Word: ownership
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...Cullerton for giving tax breaks to major Democratic Party contributors; lawsuits to open up the Irish-dominated fire department to minority hiring and promotion; and the indictment of the mayor's former director of public relations, Earl Bush, on charges of mail fraud in connection with his secret ownership of a company that operated the display advertising concession at city-owned O'Hare Airport...
...Justice Department last week made a proposition that will upset some big owners of newspapers and television stations. In a major policy statement, it urged the Federal Communications Commission to ban single ownership of daily papers and TV stations in the same city (there are now an estimated 83 such combinations in 78 cities). The department's antitrust division recommended that dual owners be given from five to eight years to unload one property or the other; it suggested that owners be allowed to trade papers or stations with those in other cities, a move that would allow them...
...radical change, ownership of industry and politics alike by those who have always borne their burdens, the working people of the world, that May Day stands for. This is year when it's easy to lose sight of that vision--when it's all most people can do to fight a different vision, one of rigid totalitarian control like those of Chile's new and Portugal's's overthrown dictatorship, like (on a much smaller, milder, and more hesitant scale) the illegal tactics President Nixon liked to avail himself of. May Day is especially important this year, because it reminds...
CAMBRIDGE, like many other old industrial towns in the Boston area, must combat the increasingly serious problem of an ever-shrinking tax base. As more and more of the taxable property in the city shifts from private residential and industrial ownership to non-profit, tax-exempt institutions, the city loses large amounts of its potential tax revenue. A shrinking tax base and an increasing city budget add up to a greater and greater tax burden that must be born by Cambridge homeowners and businessmen. And, in the last few years, these individuals have placed mounting pressure on the city government...
...Oakland, Calif.-based religious broadcaster yesterday gave up its bid for ownership of Cambridge radio station WCAS, three months after staking its controversial claim in the AM station...