Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Social Security taxes or accept Social Security benefits: care of the elderly, they insist, is their religious duty. They do not want to grow rich. When oil was discovered on some Amish farms in Kansas, the owners sold the farms and moved elsewhere. Most Amish communities forbid the ownership (though not the occasional use) of automobiles, tractors and telephones. Emergency use of electricity may be permitted, but radio and television are not. They farm organically. Their consumption is so inconspicuous that merchants complain about their thrift...
Indefinite Expansion. The editorial benefits of common ownership can be considerable to individual papers. The Cocoa, Fla., Today (48,101) covers space shots with imagination and expertise for the whole chain, via the Gannett News Service. The Statesman in Boise has been filing with local insight for all papers on the recent Idaho mine disaster. The News Service circulates such group-wide features as an entertainment column from the San Bernardino Sun and a music column from the Times-Union. Small papers benefit from staff coverage by bigger ones and in turn serve as testing grounds for technical improvements that...
...Maxey's acquisitiveness in the 1960s. The firm expanded furiously, sometimes taking into the organization successful regional companies that did not fit well. Executives of some of the acquired firms may have seen Maxey coming. Genesco's standard takeover agreement allowed the sellers to keep the ownership of the buildings that they occupied and offered fat stock bonuses to men who could produce profit increases for Genesco in the first three years after acquisition. Some managers simply rewrote their building leases, temporarily cutting rents in order to raise earnings. Now that the three-year periods are lapsing...
...festival atmosphere that prevailed outside Massachusetts Hall last month during a six-day occupation by PALC rapidly receded into the past after the building was re-occupied by the sober Administrators who have their peace-time offices there. But the dispute over Harvard's ownership of Gulf Oil stock which prompted 34 blacks to seize the building has been reopened by the decision to initiate disciplinary proceedings against 19 of the alleged occupiers...
...Radcliffe will retain ownership of its property and endowment...