Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...university's Board of Regents, which claims ownership of the newspaper, has threatened it with withdrawal of all ASUC (Associated Students of the University of California) funds. In previous years ASUC has contributed upwards of $38,000 towards an annual budget of approximately...
According to James Blodgett, Managing Editor of the Californian, the question of ownership of the newspaper is based on a murky agreement made in 1954, when student membership in ASUC was made mandatory by a university-wide referendum...
...September. They also promise to open nearly all their "pureblood" industries to either 50% or 100% foreign ownership...
...items and petrochemicals. The Japanese government rejects many investment applications, stalls on others, attaches unacceptable conditions to still others. Ford and Chrysler have been delayed for years in attempts to buy into the booming Japanese auto industry, and General Motors has won permission for only a limited investment: 35% ownership of a joint venture with Isuzu Motors, a truck maker. Says James Adachi, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan: "We can set up a factory to make geta [Japanese wooden clogs], or open a supermarket, so long as it is smaller than 500 square meters...
Because most investment firms operate with private, transitory financing, an inflow of permanent capital would stabilize the business and afford more protection to investors. Wall Street is being forced toward public ownership by changing ground rules in the securities market. Increased competition caused by the shift to negotiated rates is an inducement for more firms to get into profitable big-block trading. But the firms normally have to buy these blocks before they can sell them among investors, and this requires considerable capital. In addition, the New York Stock Exchange is planning to tighten its capital requirements; instead...