Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What could justify this? I do not think that the question of stock ownership can justify this, can justify our silence on Cambodia because the Harvard Corporation doesn't own stock in companies doing business in Cambodia. Sir, forgive me, it takes a high sense of personal drama for a person to look on the receipt of stock proxy as an inescapable moral intanglement. Such a person with such a fluttery heart should stay in bed at day and leave his mail in the mailbox. He should certainly stay away from Harvard Square, where he will be accosted by every...
Loeb also said he is alarmed at the trend toward concentration of ownership of media. He predicted that ten large conglomerates will soon control 90 per cent of all print media...
...final assembly plant in Toulouse, France, is scheduled to increase from 2.3 planes a month to six by 1982. The consortium's payroll will rise from 17,000 to 40,000 in the four participating countries, which divvy up the manufacturing in rough proportion to their Airbus ownership-37.9% for both France and West Germany, 20% for Britain, and 4.2% for Spain. The four have invested some $3 billion in the project...
...After the suggestion was reported in the paper, says Souders, "a woman walked in with a check for two potholes." Then another woman came in, and then another. With that, the town went into business. For $10 per hole (or $25 for three), a buyer gets a certificate of ownership, a photograph of the hole and an implied promise that it will be filled...
...evictions of tenants who refuse to buy. To critics who argue that such conversions are driving out the cash-shy old and young, realtors respond rather unpersuasively that condos and co-ops have stabilized neighborhoods and kept them up by giving the middle class the advantages and responsibilities of ownership. But the big switch to apartment ownership will make it harder for many Americans to find apartments at prices they can afford...