Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Prosecutors claim that Biaggi received $3.6 million in Wedtech stock after threatening to undermine the SBA's support for the company. Among those indicted was a former SBA regional administrator who is alleged to have approved a sham arrangement masking the fact that Wedtech no longer had majority Hispanic ownership. "If Wedtech was the proverbial American success story," said U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, "these charges raise serious questions about the way we practice politics and conduct business in the city, state and nation...
...Prime Minister described her program as containing "real, radical policies for the next Parliament," with the key theme "power to the people." Said she: "We intend to spread ownership of homes, shares and pensions even more widely. We shall continue to sell industries back to the people. We want to extend greater choice in services like housing and education...
Appealing to the pocketbook vote, the Tories underlined their achievements in a slick 26-page electoral pamphlet and in a flood of positive statistics. Among the gains: two-thirds of Britons own their homes today, up from 50% when Thatcher assumed office. Car ownership has risen from 54% to 66%. The number of Britons who are stockholders has almost tripled, from 7% to 20%, and the number of those who consider themselves to belong to the middle class has increased from 30% of the population to roughly 50% over the past eight years. Inflation has been cut from...
Taking a cue from Corporate America, more and more people these days are shopping for cars the same way that Inkley did. For decades automobile leasing has been popular among firms anxious to protect their cash flow and capital from the kind of rapid depreciation that car-fleet ownership entails. Now individual consumers are taking up the same practice for roughly similar reasons. Last year, according to the American Automotive Leasing Association (A.A.L.A.), a lobbying group, individual customers leased nearly 2 million of the 11.4 million new cars delivered in the U.S., a record. That 17% market share compares with...
...three-year study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health will examine more than 2000 mental health facilities in a nation-wide effort to determine the effect private ownership has on the care in these facilities...