Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chileans further stressed that they have no thought of returning ownership of the mines to the American companies. Indeed, they said, the matter of compensation itself must eventually be decided by the Chilean courts. But they asserted that the new government believes that Allende made an improper calculation of the compensation due. When their properties were taken over, Anaconda estimated its losses at $462 million; Kennecott calculated $365 million. But Allende figured that "excess profits" earned in the past left the companies owing money to Chile...
...housing for low- and middle-income families. As an important step in accomplishing this, the city should lobby for adequate Federal and state rent subsidy programs to allow these families to compete for existing housing. At the same time, the city should encourage subsidized and sweat equity home ownership programs to recapture existing housing stock from the investment market. (Sweat equity programs are proving successful in Cambridge, and do not require state or Federal subsidy. They should be our main housing effort during the current Federal housing moratorium.) The city should pursue code enforcement, but in a way designed...
Martin also announced that he had established the Committee to Study Hilles Library to look at the long-term questions regarding the status of the library including book ownership...
...long can the land boom last? There is nothing immediately in sight to stop it. In part, land-hungry Americans are following a deep, atavistic pattern. It is no accident that land is called real estate; land ownership for millenniums has been the basis of power and wealth. Today many urbanites have a feeling that life in the cities is too ephemeral and that they can become people of sub stance only by putting down roots in the land. As Novelist Anthony Trollope put it in 1867: "It is a very comfortable thing to stand on your own ground. Land...
...into lots for housing, commercial and industrial sites For that reason, developers have platted (divided into precisely mapped portions) millions of building lots across the U.S. far in advance of their use. Such subdividing grossly inflates land prices. Once the lots are sold off to individual buyers ownership of plots is scattered, to the extent that local authorities often find it impossible to accumulate land for parks and other public uses. Nor do the developers' plans always work out: no one knows how many superfluous, remote or uninhabitable subdivisions the U.S. contains today that were platted long...