Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard oversees this tidy little piece of real estate, I was given two different parties at the Real Estate Office and two more at Facilities Maintenance, without satisfaction. A call to Casa Mexico, the restaurant at 75 Winthrop that had been my intended destination, confirmed university ownership, however. I hereby irrevocably demand of Harvard University, disinvestiture from the corrupt Winthrop Street operation, refund of monies lost by the complaintant, and public apology in the form of visible signs erected where undevious-minded, innocent out-of-towners can see them. Cliff Johnson...
...Houston, gun control is as unpopular as zoning. A Texan with a driver's license or similar I.D. can walk into a gun shop, sign a federal firearms form and purchase a weapon. No waiting period or local registration is required. The absence of any significant restrictions on gun ownership has helped put firearms in more than a few bedroom closets and night-table drawers --and, it seems, into the hands of youngsters who do not realize how lethal the weapons...
Nearly twenty years ago, Harvard built the Cambridge St. tunnel in order to create a walkway between the Yard and the then newly built Science Center. The council agreed to investigate the ownership of the overpass...
...demands of many unions have been stifled by Reagan-backed federal actions, as in the case of a much-publicized air traffic controller's strike four years ago. And Ironically, the unions have also stifled themselves. In many cases today, they accept concessions in the form of employees stock ownership plans, workplace democracy schemes and worker participation on management boards. But while these plans are progressive, they usually come at the expense of worker wages and pension plans...
...example, unions at Eastern Airlines last month took an 18 percent pay cut in exchange for a 25 percent share in the ownership of the company and the placement of four workers on the board of directors. Yet the plan doesn't seem to have worked in the employees favor. Workers are now considering another strike and the company is attempting to pay off a staggering debt...