Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Florida's governor and cabinet yesterday deferred consideration of an environmentally sensitive tract of land of which Harvard has part ownership...
...Soviet-controlled company grew impatient and bought a Hitachi-made IBM clone. The Commerce Department admitted last week that it could have questioned that sale because the Hitachi machine contains some U.S.-made parts, but agency staffers who approved that deal somehow failed to notice Transnautic's Soviet ownership...
...MOVING AHEAD, party leaders and 1,400 mostly dispirited delegates agreed to a formal reappraisal of Labor's direction, following three straight electoral losses to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives. With an eye toward broadening party appeal, Labor promised to reassess even such sacred party tenets as state ownership of industry and unilateral nuclear disarmament, which Deputy Party Leader Roy Hattersley called the "major vote loser" in the past election. Party Leader Neil Kinnock said, "We have got to appeal to the voters we need...
...British) and the St. Clement Vineyard (Japanese). In Alaska, Japanese investors control more than one-third of the state's $680 million seafood-packing industry. U.S. farmland might be a bigger target for raiders, except that more than two dozen states have imposed controls or bans on foreign ownership...
Flush with cash and encouraged by the falling dollar, investors from overseas are snapping up skyscrapers and shopping malls, corporations and forest land, refineries and casinos. Already, Manhattan' s landmark Tiffany building is Japanese, Brooks Brothers is Canadian, and Sohio is in British hands. Is foreign ownership a danger? See ECONOMY & BUSINESS...