Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sometimes you just wanted to shake your head or cover your face and pretend it would go away," says Jeffrey P. Brain, a curator at the Peabody Museum, recalling his experiences with the relics. The find spurred a court battle about legal ownership of the Indian artifacts that has already lasted nine years. For most of that time, the Tunica collection was stored at Harvard's Peabody Museum...
...charges of racketeering, conspiracy, tax evasion, mail fraud, wire fraud and trading with the enemy could earn Rich and Green prison sentences totaling 325 years each, fines of more than $500,000 and confiscation of millions of dollars in assets. One of Rich's holdings is a co-ownership in 20th Century-Fox, which his company controls jointly with Denver Oilman Marvin Davis...
...says, "madness. They believed in public ownership of everything. They wanted to eliminate all private workers. In all China there were only 150,000 private workers. They wanted the barbershops, the bathhouses, the shoemaking shops all to be state enterprises. The poorer the people, was their theory, the more 'revolutionary' they would become. We found we had 26 million people
...Japanese lead the world in the number of hours spent in front of the TV set. A 1982 study shows that in Japan the average family spends 8 hr. 15 min. a day watching TV, in contrast to 6 hr. 43 min. in the U.S. Television ownership is the highest in the world. Some 98% of homes have a color set (U.S. 89%). Another recent study reveals that the tube has become so essential that 31% of the Japanese would rather part with their cars, refrigerators, newspapers or telephones than give up their TV screens...
...industrial cities headed by whites. As mayor of Atlanta from 1974 to 1981, a determined Maynard Jackson invested the city's money in black-controlled banks and opened construction projects to black contractors. In New Orleans, Mayor Ernest Morial successfully pushed for at least 10% minority ownership in a new $300 million retail, hotel and office complex. "All their lives, blacks are told to work through the system to get a piece of the action," says Morial, a civil rights lawyer and judge before his 1978 election. "If that is true, then I suggest that the city get involved...