Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Graham fully understand, Kleindienst wanted to know from Clawson, the law involving ownership of television stations? Specifically, the law that prevented convicted felons from owning broadcast properties? If we persisted in publishing the Pentagon Papers, the deputy attorney general went on, and if we refused to turn them over to the Justice Department, we were laying ourselves wide open to criminal prosecution (as distinct from the civil suit then in progress to prevent us from publishing the papers) under the Espionage...
When the first auto license plate was issued in New York State in 1901, the licensee's initials were required to be on the plate, and the temptation to personalize automobile ownership has persisted. In 33 states and the District of Columbia, inventive drivers can, for an added fee, tag their cars with letters of their own choosing. Of course, choices that make use of ethnic epithets or sexual innuendoes are screened...
...been deeded before a deadline for such tax claims, the General Services Administration ruled last week that the papers cannot be sold. According to the ruling, they are now the property of the National Archives under a binding deed, the date of which does not matter for purposes of ownership...
Forecasting the future of world crude-oil prices is one of the riskiest ventures in the whole realm of economic prediction. The questions involved go far beyond economics. Can the oil-producing nations continue to hold together as a cartel? How much and how quickly will they extend national ownership of the multinational oil-company affiliates pumping on their lands? Is a lasting peace likely in the Middle East, or might renewed fighting lead to a reimposition of the Arab oil embargo? Despite all these puzzlers, top U.S. economists now agree on two conclusions: barring war or other disaster...
...notch. Nixon was wild, shouting and hollering that 'we can't have it and we're going to stop it [the leaks]. I don't care how much it costs.' " Not long afterward rival Florida broadcasting companies filed a challenge through the Federal Communications Commission to the Post's ownership of two Florida television stations. The Post is still fighting to retain its licenses...