Word: ownership
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Housing: One of the proudest achievements of the post-World War II economy was converting the U.S. from a nation of renters to one of homeowners. But in the past eight years, home ownership has declined for the first time since 1940. The fall has been sharpest for young families; for people between 35 and 39, the percentage owning their own homes has dropped from 61% to 53% since Reagan became President. Middle-class salaries have simply fallen far short of the inflation in housing costs: today's average home buyer has to save 50% of / a full year...
Campaigning in Missouri, he unwittingly used a foreign-owned factory as the setting for a speech criticizing rising foreign ownership of domestic manufacturing plants...
...survivors" of the trend to foreign ownership in the auto-parts industry, he said to workers at the Moog Automotive Co.--which has been owned since 1977 by a New York-based holding company controlled by an Italian family. Aides said Dukakis was unaware of the ownership of the company...
...spoke, one company executive asked another if Dukakis was aware of the plant's foreign ownership. Aides rushed to tell reporters that Dukakis was not criticizing Moog or its owners but was opposed to a growing trend of foreign investment in the United States...
...independent contractors" generated $917,000 in profits last year on ^ $5.4 million in revenues. By selling shares for $20 apiece, the group plans to raise $23.3 million, $18 million of which would go to buying the ranch from its current owners, Joseph and Sally Conforte. Under its new ownership, the firm could function much like any other publicly held company. Except that its method of making money is not legal in any state besides Nevada...