Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...annual net income from its television station WHDH. (Declining TV revenue in 1971 caused a net loss for the company of $310,000.) The really damaging blow came in January, when the Federal Communications Commission took away the corporation's TV license in order to diversify local media ownership. The corporation had fought 24 years for clear title to the license in a complex, oft-contested case, the official records of which fill 172 volumes...
Harvard's ownership of stock in the Gulf Oil Company helps perpetuate racist policies that extend well beyond Portuguese Angola to wherever on the high seas Gulf tankers sail to places in the United States where Gulf operates refineries at which hiring practices and the nature of the company's community involvement should be seriously questioned...
...journalism as embodied by the newspapers and magazines and television networks and their subsidiaries--has also embarked on a big, new beautiful tomorrow. The advances in journalism have been made by individuals and the corporate entities have generally resisted their influence. Probably in reflection of their history of family ownership, newspapers today are as reticent as ever in telling tales on themselves. Why, you might ask, is the New York Times so upset by the spectre of the New Populism? Why did the Boston Globe move columnist David Deitch off its editorial pages? And how much would vou wager...
Although the occupation of Massachusetts Hall by black protesters has ended, Harvard's ownership of Gulf stock remains a vital moral issue...
...shares with these others a moral community. Furthermore, within this moral universe, there are certain things which, at given moments of time, are judged more important than others. Gulf's involvement in Angola is very much a part of Harvard's moral universe in view of its part ownership of the company, its capacity to influence the company's policy, and the absence of any coercion on its capacity to exercise or to attempt to exercise such influence. And Gulf's involvement in Angola is, at this time, highly relevant to a significant segment of the Harvard community...