Word: ownership
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With the land in question a checkerboard ownership of Navajo, other private landholders and the U.S. government, the ultimate fate of the mine may depend on who wins jurisdiction in court. Regardless, the Navajo syllables To eii be iina at e (Water is life) have become fighting words in Crownpoint...
Would anything have kept Brown at the New Yorker? "Not once Harvey mentioned ownership," she says. "I wasn't looking for another 'job.' I really wasn't. The New Yorker as a job is the best job in American journalism. But [the deal with Miramax] was a whole other ball game...
...distributor Softbank announced it was investing a fresh $400 million in the upstart brokerage. Forget Kleiner Perkins -- the Tokyo-based Softbank is the real kingmaker when it comes to anointing web frontrunners. The investment raises Softbank's stake to 27% of E*Trade, and matches the company's large ownership interest in other web winners like Yahoo (31%) and Geocities (35%). Softbank also owns more than 70% of electronics publishing giant Ziff-Davis...
...place; the much needed privatization of industry and land reforms has been slow to progress in the face of vast squandering of land and capital. The result has been a quasi-market economy without a solid framework of law (much legislation is still in the making) and without private ownership of industry. Six months ago, the economy was said to have reached "the absolute rock bottom"--inflation was galloping at over 300 percent per month, interest rates were soaring, preceded by a bank run. All this coupled with various forms of crime (my parents' apartment was robbed the weekend before...
Bertelli's latest bid, says an Italian financial analyst, leaves little downside for Prada: "He's in a win-win situation. He's probably trying to put together a group so that he can go to a shareholders' meeting with 10% to 15% of the company. Given the broad ownership of Gucci, that would put him in a position to wield some power. If that doesn't work, at least he's put the company in play and could make $10 million or $20 million off the deal." There is even talk that Bertelli, a sailing fan, is just fund...