Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unable to make lasting friendships, awkward and uncomfortable with women despite the beauties he squired in public, sometimes generous but often thoughtless of those who worked for him. Dietrich was paid $500,000 a year, but taxes took a huge chunk of that. Dietrich persistently badgered Hughes for part ownership. Hughes stalled for years. Finally, in 1957, Dietrich decided...
...starters, the SEC has asked that it be given power to oversee the entire process of transferring stock ownership from one buyer to another. The unwieldy process now involves bankers and other transfer agents who are not directly subject to regulation. Failure to coordinate their efforts helped to cause the backlog of paperwork that did much to bring on the 1970 crisis. The SEC also wants the right to disapprove any new rules made by the self-regulatory bodies, to enforce the exchange's rules and, if warranted, to stiffen the penalties meted out by the exchange to erring...
...driven in and around Harvard must be registered with the Harvard Police whether or not a parking permit is purchased. Unregistered cars are subject to a $25 fine. In some instances, as many students are belatedly discovering, parking violation tickets have been issued against these vehicles during the period ownership is being determined by the Police. So, by the time the student is contacted by the Police, he perhaps has incurred the basic $25 fine plus another thirty to forty dollars in fines to be places on his term bill...
...cigar-shaped aluminum container and chilled to -321° F. in liquid nitrogen. Sperm banks are inordinately careful to guard against unauthorized use of their resources. Donors are blood-typed, for instance, because certain substances are common to both individual sperm and blood and thus serve to identify "ownership" of the substance...
What Seward purchased was not land, but only the right to tax and administer it. Ownership remained in the hands of Alaska's Eskimos, Aleuts and Indians, who now number some 55,000. Starting in 1959, they pressed their ancient claims. Last week, after years of sporadic haggling, Congress passed a bill to resolve the issue. If the natives approve it, which is considered likely, the bill may be signed into law by President Nixon this week...