Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...help overcome a housing shortage, Poles are now being encouraged to invest their savings in construction cooperatives or even to build their own houses. "I am a true capitalist," said the president of a cooperative near Warsaw. "I am helping these men to create wealth." But does not home ownership violate Marxist dogma on the accumulation of private wealth? "We solved that problem," declared the deputy head of Poland's Housing Authority. "We now consider housing to be personal property like books or clothing. Marx had nothing against that type of possession...
...party's inability to keep the peace among Yugoslavia's diverse nationalities has been compounded by growing economic disruption, much of it of his own making. The "self-management" system he introduced in 1950, combining a market economy and other features of free enterprise with state ownership of industry, is foundering because of inefficiency and mismanagement. Massive imports of Western technology and consumer goods have not been matched by American or European investment. As a result, Yugoslavia is becoming more dependent on Soviet capital. Eight hundred thousand Yugoslavs have sought jobs in Western Europe, and many virtually bankrupt...
...nation's last major privately owned urban-transit line, O. Roy Chalk's 1,099-bus D.C. Transit System, Inc., is about to pass into public ownership. President Nixon late last month signed a bill authorizing the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to acquire deficit-plagued D.C. Transit and three smaller suburban bus companies. W.M.A.T.A., a public agency created in 1967 to plan and develop the capital's proposed $2.98 billion rapid rail transit system, will pay at least $50 million for the package, and will spend a like amount on modernization...
...that West Germany had acknowledged in its 1971 treaty with Poland. On the home front, Party Chief Edward Gierek has accommodated the hierarchy by abolishing a law requiring bishops to keep inventories of all church assets, and by returning churches and convents in the former German territories to church ownership...
Thus, while the report makes noble vows about selling property for which there is "no good reason for continued ownership," it puts off until 19"4 the first sale and makes no specific delineation of what are "good reasons for continued ownership...