Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...until 1970, when he played one of the restless family men out on a spree in the film Husbands, did things get going for Falk again. He did Husbands gratis in return for a part-ownership in the film, which turned out to be critically controversial but financially successful. "It was the best payday I've had," he smiles...
...best-known advocate of gun-ownership is, of course, the National Rifle Association. Sherrill follows its progress from shaky beginning to the boom period after World War II, when the Defense Department made available tens of thousands of surplus rifles and millions of rounds of ammunition for N.R.A. gun clubs. That practice was curtailed in the late '60s when the threat of armed blacks and radicals at last made the passage of limited gun-control laws possible...
...economic groups with no interests in Cuba naturally opposed this country's intervention in 1898. But U.S. participation served not only to mollify a public frightened by the growing pains of capitalism--labor violence, the concentration of ownership, urbanization, the dissolution of "rural values," and the swelling number of non-English speaking immigrants--it also bolstered moderate and conservative elements among the revolutionaries, preventing Cuba from falling into the hands of militant nationalists. Limited intervention became a legitimate foreign policy instrument...
Professors at Harvard, with few notable exceptions, are granted the theoretical right to advocate rebellion, to develop, and reflect on Marxist ideologies, or to argue for an end to private ownership of land, homes, factories and means of transportation. In much the same sense, editors at Time or Newsweek or The New York Times are free to view the Cuban Revolution as a positive step forward for mankind. It is a deep and clever North American deception to allow professor, scholar, editor alike, to say that they please when we know well that what they please is what we like...
...bogged-down mines running well again, the nation desperately needs foreign technology and expertise, and is willing to get it from the U.S. The clear implication: Anaconda and Kennecott might come back and run the mines on behalf of the Chilean government and be paid for their former ownership out of the profits that they make for Chile. Ironically, if the companies do collect compensation, they may have to hand over some of the cash to the U.S. Government, to repay money that they have received from the federal Overseas Private Investment Corp., which insures investments abroad. Anaconda has received...