Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...center left is Radomiro Tomic, the former ambassador to the U.S., who is the candidate of Frei's Christian Democratic Party. Tomic, the 56-year-old father of nine, has criticized the Frei government's failure to reduce inflation and to move from "Chileanization" (51% ownership) to full nationalization of the copper industry...
...News, and Dallas-based Tracy-Locke, which purchased Tulsa's KCNW and Fort Worth's KJIM. Foote, Cone & Belding acquired eight cable-TV systems before the A.A.A.A. came to consider CATV an advertising medium and was influential in persuading the association to drop the rule against media ownership altogether. The stations serve 13,000 customers in New York, Colorado and California, and the agency often uses the systems to test-market its commercials...
...Your suggestion [July 13] that a federal law be enacted to discourage legal ownership of firearms would realistically affect only those who legally seek to own firearms, since criminals, by the definition, neither respect nor obey the law. The true issue is the prevention of the criminal misuse of firearms. I most strongly feel that your ill-conceived idea will never become law, but if it should, in my considered opinion, it would not be upheld by the Supreme Court, since some rather basic constitutional provisions would have been violated...
...nation. The peasantry, by and large, had never been wholeheartedly in favor of the Bolsheviks-many of whom had rejected the peasants entirely as a factor in revolutionary change-and tended to prefer such groups as the Mensseviks and Social Revolutionaries, who opposed the requisitioning and endorsed equal land ownership and a free agricultural market. Many industrial workers, their unions emasculated and their soviets crucially weakened during the civil war period, had also come to doubt the wisdom and fairness of the party's centralist thinking...
...intricacies of their claims to Alaska. Back in 1867, the U.S. actually bought only the right to tax and govern Alaska, leaving ownership of its 365 million acres in the hands of the natives. Such a fine legal point did not trouble early settlers, who took possession of their stakes under homesteading or mineral-exploitation laws that are still in effect. To complicate matters further, the Statehood Act of 1958 entitled Alaska to withdraw 103 million acres from the federal domain. Naturally, the state wanted the land with the richest resources. It first picked 2,000,000 acres...