Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will have to lay off 625 of the plant's approximately 1200 workers. Carbide has one of the worst records of all U.S. corporations in refusing to curb air pollution. Harvard, with 68,520 shares, worth over $3,000,000, is by far the educational institute with the largest ownership of Carbide stock...
Under consideration by the FCC are rulings that would provide for two-way communications through cable TV and a proposal that would limit cable TV ownership to people not involved in the local media. This ruling is significant in that once the investment is made by commercial interests, it heavily tips the scale against future innovation...
...media must be liberated, must be removed from private ownership and commercial sponsorship, must be placed in the service of all humanity. We must make the media believable. We must assume conscious control over the videosphere. We must wrench the intermedia network free from the archaic and corrupt intelligence that now dominates...
...commercial television industry since its inception. If the alternate television movement succeeds, television will not be broadcast, it will be narrowest: that is, television will no longer originate solely from the highly centralized monolithic structure the networks now form. The networks will be decentralized, removed from private ownership and commercial sponsorship, free from censorship of any kind. Television will become the center of a revolutionary communications system which could provide the public with instant access to any and all information that can be recorded either visually or by sound. Moreover, everyone will have equal access to the airwaves...
...trucking, electric power, steel and the London transit system. When the Conservatives rebounded to power in 1951, they set about denationalizing steel and trucking, and decentralizing some of the other state monopolies. Labor came back under Prime Minister Harold Wilson in 1964 and returned steel and trucking to government ownership. Before the Conservatives took over last June, nationalized industries had grown and diversified into a group that has $25 billion in assets and accounts for 11% of Britain's gross domestic product. In addition to the enterprises the government owns outright, there are others-like British Petroleum and BOAC...