Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...headquarters, De Niro chose an 83-year-old red brick building situated in TriBeCa, a trendy downtown neighborhood where he lives. De Niro, who will have 50% ownership in the building, is supervising a renovation that will leave in place industrial details like the giant coffee scales in his office. But the building's advanced features will include a 70-seat screening room designed by director George Lucas' production company...
...most of the stock buying has been done by corporations through stock-repurchase programs, mergers, leveraged buyouts or employee-stock- ownership plans. All told, such buybacks have reduced the supply of shares on the market by a record $94 billion during the first half of the year, or nearly 4% of all outstanding stock. The buyout of RJR Nabisco alone took $25 billion worth of stock off the market, while the acquisition of Warner Communications by Time Inc. will reduce supply by another $14 billion...
...extend the line because there had been no fighting in Kashmir's northernmost reaches, but merely mentioned that the line should continue "thence north to the glaciers." Despite minor adjustments after the 1965 and 1971 India-Pakistan wars, the official boundary still ends at NJ 9842, leaving the Siachen ownership question unresolved...
...handled house sales for HUD and then failed to turn the money over to the Government were not "Robin Hood-type heroes . . . robbing the rich. They are stealing from the taxpayer and depriving low- and moderate- income people of the opportunity to realize the American dream of home ownership." He noted that HUD had even let some developers turn housing projects for retirees into havens for the wealthy. He cited a Florida project in which two-bedroom apartments rented for $2,100 a month...
...able to acquire the fatal weapon: "No waiting period was enforced, no mental or criminal checks were made, and the salesperson even loaded the bullets into the gun. Mom died that day because of the totally irresponsible attitude that we Americans have developed about gun use and ownership." Every week, more American families are exposed to that irreversible lesson...