Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...explanation: "A man who drives another's horse gets 5% of the horses winnings. A man who drives and trains another's horse gets 10% The man who drives, trains and owns a horse gets 100%." Conclusion: 'The key to this business is ownership." Hervé should know. Though he is best known for his exploits on the track, he also doubles as a trainer and an owner...
...contrast, native Caymanians, mostly light brown descendants of Scotch-Irish and black Jamaican settlers, are blessed with uncomplicated lives and, by Caribbean standards, fairly high prosperity. Many islanders work as sailors aboard foreign ships. The islands have no military service, no taxes and only elementary rules of land ownership. The government is run by a British Governor General, Kenneth Crook, and there is no apparent friction between him and native-born administrators. Indeed, the latter are eagerly accepting the new businessmen. "Oh, sure, some people say being a tax haven is just a gimmick," says Finance Minister Vassel Johnson...
...cultures as disparate as Russia during the Revolution and England in the late Victorian Age. What we receive in owning them is a palpable, other existence, an existence evinced in the signatures, the dedications, and the scrawled notations in the margin which we come upon in reading. And our ownership is limited to the duration of our lives; we are simply the custodians of such volumes, which pass from us like heirlooms, some of them even enriched through...
...Year during seven successful seasons with the Baltimore Colts. Shula won a lifetime enemy by bolting a five-year contract with Colt Owner Carroll Rosenbloom (who this year swapped his downsliding Colts for the Los Angeles Rams) to snap at the hook Robbie had baited with part ownership. Rosenbloom filed a "tampering" charge with the office of N.F.L. Commissioner Alvin ("Pete") Rozelle, who responded by awarding Baltimore the Dolphins' No. 1 draft choice...
Breuer kept those qualities-and brought them up to date. His glass walls brought the outdoors in and made views a part of ownership. His sure mastery of native materials-fieldstone and wood-gives the houses a feeling of security and protection. Architectural students still marvel at the details, studying how Breuer made the houses grow so naturally out of the sod, how he cantilevered staircases and, above all, how he met the needs of occupants. In some H-shaped houses, he separated the daytime areas-kitchen, dining and living rooms-from bedrooms by a central hall. In his rectangular...