Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Appearing before the Indonesian Journalists' Association, General Suharto denied press reports linking his wife Ibu Tien (whom some foreign papers have unkindly dubbed "Ibu Ten Percent") to the ownership of four companies. One of those firms, the largest Toyota dealership in Jakarta, had been gutted by flames during the rioting...
...National League club owners unanimously agreed yesterday to sell the San Diego Padres to hamburger tycoon Ray A. Kroc, apparently ending months of controversy over the club's ownership...
...illusion of reality, the cinema surpasses even most live entertainment. It is easily accessible, yet a conscious act of choice must be made to gain access: a viewer must go to a theatre and pay admission. Well-made films are too expensive to allow for individual purchase and ownership on a mass basis--hence, the ongoing necessity of "public exhibition." For all these reasons, the censorship of pornography has found its ultimate challenge in the arena of the movie house--a challenge which therefore must concern me not only as a citizen, but as a film critic...
...voted more than 10% of the stock of the American Broadcasting Co. and just under 10% of the stock of Metromedia. Banks have been so deeply into broadcasting that in 1972 the FCC had to liberalize its rules to increase, from 1% to 5%, their maximum legal share of ownership of more than one major broadcasting company. Otherwise, the banks would have had to sell $976 million in the stock of 25 broadcasting companies, a move that might well have depressed many shares...
...spite of the distinctions Fromm tries to make between his approach and Skinner's, he falls victim to his own criticisms of the behaviorists. As with Skinner, his recommendations that society change its "system of production, ownership and consumption" depend on faith in man's manipulability and desire to change...