Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Police said the family has had a history of domestic disputes over ownership of the Charles Street house where Hinds' mother lived. On several occasions officers were called to mediate...
...risk, funds such as Meriwether's often do just the opposite by using vast sums of borrowed money to make highly speculative bets in global markets. At the peak of its borrowing, the secretive fund reportedly carried a debt load 100 times as great as its net assets, or ownership capital. This would be like putting down $1,000 of your own money to buy a $100,000 house--in a flood plain on the San Andreas fault. "Most hedge-fund managers believe that a leverage ratio in excess of 50 to 1 is exceptionally large and very risky," says...
...They talk about home ownership issues," he says. "I was born and raised in Boston. Not a lot of black people own the property on which they [were raised]. And as you see, about this urban gentrification and urban renewal projects, they're really removing people of color...
...vibes and how you feel about them," Slayman says. "He's talked a lot about ideas. Home ownership, soft mortgages. And they were real inspiring for people like me who lived here all my life. I can't afford to live in the same neighborhood that I was born and raised in," he says. "Chris Gabrielli is the first candidate who I was able to talk about...
...place. It is mine." One might argue that these are just the necessary steps to ensure everyone's safety--whatever distance must come between President and citizen, the rationale would go, is for their mutual benefit. But it seems that America may be losing that irrational, incredible feel of ownership unnecessarily...