Word: ownership
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...great delight, Walton spent much of his career largely unnoticed by the public or the press. In fact, hardly anyone had ever heard of him when, in 1985, Forbes magazine determined that his 39% ownership of Wal-Mart's stock made him the richest man in America. After that, the first wave of attention focused on Walton as populist retailer: his preference for pickup trucks over limos and for the company of bird dogs over that of investment bankers. His extraordinary charisma had motivated hundreds of thousands of employees to believe in what Wal-Mart could accomplish, and many...
While final clubs are still on top in terms of membership and property ownership, fraternities are gaining a foothold...
Dechen T. Dongshi, who shares ownership of the new Tibetan restaurant Rising Moon with her husband, father and sister, said she hopes that the absence of Tibetan restaurants in the Square will work to their advantage...
...certainly provokes a multitude of questions regarding authorship and ownership in art. Do you own an image you produce or is it independent of you? Can someone else reproduce your image and then call it their own because they produced their copy? How can that image then be used? Is a multiplicity of identical images less valuable than a single one? All of these questions which society is deliberating now were equally significant at the turn of the century with the invention of photography, and even before that, four centuries ago, in the time of Marcantonio and Durer...
While Liemandt says the company will carefully decide when to go public, Trilogy must avoid the inherent pitfalls of switching from the private world to Wall Street and public ownership...