Word: ownership
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Colleges and professional minor leagues coexist in baseball and hockey. There is no reason the same can't be true for basketball and football. It is unfortunate that the only way to make it happen is by letting the schools retain the ownership of these teams, and the huge profits that go along with them. Still, it is a far cry better than the special brand of hypocrisy being practiced by the NCAA and colleges across the country...
...congress could not have come at a more sensitive time. At issue amid the ongoing political turmoil is China's leadership into the 21st century. On one side are ambitious young reformers who want to press ahead with the radical innovations such as profits and private ownership that Deng, 82, has begun. On the other are mostly aging hard-liners determined to slow or roll back Deng's reforms and quiet the winds of Western-style democratic change, which they derisively label "bourgeois liberalization." Led by Peng Zhen, 85, chairman of the standing committee of the National People's Congress...
...Action Team, whose mission is to "end hunger in Chicago through self-sufficiency." Says she: "It makes such a difference to me that I'm doing something. The team is one example of how young, socially minded people are rewriting the Reagan message." The team is auctioning off part-ownership of an Arabian horse to raise money for a cafe that will be a restaurant-training program for homeless teenagers. "We want to teach them job skills," says Bayard. "Our group believes people want to help themselves. We're saying, 'Money doesn't solve the problem...
...line to cover the purchase of, say, a Rolls-Royce. "Aristotle Onassis would have loved this," fumes Republican Senator John Danforth of Missouri, a member of the Senate Finance Committee. "If we have to make choices in the tax code," he asks, "why would we want to choose yacht ownership over paying for college education or medical expenses?" Danforth has introduced legislation to close the porthole loophole...
Software licenses can include terms of confidentiality, ownership of modifications made to the software and limitations on use, some of which can be "very nasty hookers," Law said. Certain secrecy restrictions, for example, can be difficult to enforce because computer users save backup copies for their programs...