Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boasts cartoons and ads drawn from the magazine's issues of 1939. Not, however, exactly the world's most fun year. Somehow the memory of Nazi troops pouring into Poland might mar my enjoyment of next Sept. 1. Others might be attracted by the international status that instantly accompanies ownership of the Economist Desk Diary. But then, others in their youth went to England as Rhodes scholars; I had to pick up my Anglophilia during a three-day theater tour of London...
...planes evidently got caught in crossfire between Morocco and | Polisario guerrillas, who have been battling for 13 years for ownership of the territory known as the Western Sahara. It seems likely that Polisario gunners fired at the planes, mistaking them for Moroccan aircraft...
Chandler is not, of course, the only American writer with a centenary this year who worked in a British bank, steeped his writing in the classics and explored the breakdowns of the age in cadences so memorable that he seems to have taken up a time-share ownership of Bartlett's. But T.S. Eliot was an American who found his voice in England, and in books. Chandler, by contrast, was an honorary Brit who smuggled two foreign substances into Hollywood -- irony and morality -- and so gave us an unflinchingly American voice, the kind we hear in the rainy voice-overs...
Gray is the first to admit that tenant management and ownership are not the only antidotes to public housing and welfare, but she insists that her efforts can be duplicated elsewhere. "There are thousands of Kimi Grays in America who are willing to try," she says. Woodson agrees: "Kimi and other leaders are the last best hope for many of these public-housing projects. Tenant managers can't offer guarantees, but they hold great promise. The only thing worse than poverty is accepting the status...
...growing powerhouse on Wall Street. Rudolph Giuliani, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, is likely to follow the SEC in accusing Drexel and Milken of collaborating with convicted arbitrager Ivan Boesky to defraud the firm's clients, trade on insider information and conceal the true ownership of stocks -- all, presumably, in the pursuit of greater profits and power. Milken's lawyers, for their part, accuse the Government of a vindictive campaign based solely on self-serving testimony by Boesky. The potential racketeering charges against Drexel could hit the firm even harder than the civil suit, because...