Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Also, the report says that it examination of a given property "does not show good reasons for continued ownership. Harvard will sell." The Cambridge Corporation, again, will act as an adviser in selling decisions...
American scientists have good reason to be envious. Even though the Soviet Union is in theory a classless society, Soviet scientists are a powerful and privileged elite. Better paid than most of their countrymen, they enjoy superior housing, ownership of private cars, long-term job security, and perhaps most important of all, the freedom to read many Western journals and literature. Science, too, occupies a special place in the minds of government officials, who are frankly puzzled by those Westerners who are now vilifying modern science and its goals. "How could there be any antiscientific feeling in the Soviet Union...
...Last week's agreement allows the five Persian Gulf states of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Iraq and Abu Dhabi to buy an immediate 20% interest in foreign oil-producing operations in their lands. Most important, the pact calls for the five states to get a 51 % share of ownership in time, perhaps by the early 1980s...
...Jersey Standard, Gulf, Texaco, Royal Dutch/Shell and Mobil. The various Arab governments will pay each firm the book value of its real estate and equipment (which was often understated for tax purposes), and add something extra to compensate for the loss of future profits because of the transfer of ownership. The price will run to billions of dollars. But the oil-producing countries will be able to squeeze it all out of the oil companies, for the firms agreed to buy back each country's share of the oil output at a higher than normal price. Thus the consumer...
Harvard's Angela envoy, Stephen B. Farber '63, released a report on Gulf and Angela which is likely to bring the issue of the University's ownership of 700,000 shares of Gulf Oil Corporation stock back into the heat of controversy...