Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dose of cultural xenophobia thrown in. But it comes at a time when the entire industry is struggling. While more titles are being published (68,000 in 1996), hardcover sales of adult trade books slipped nearly 7% from 1996 to 1997, and overall sales dropped 3.4%. Under corporate ownership, the cultural appeal of books began to give way increasingly to bottom-line considerations. Media czars, expecting books to yield the same 15%-to-20% profits as their other content businesses, have become impatient with their publishers' balance sheets, which seldom return more than...
...Unfortunately, it seems that a common denominator of these incidents was the case of mistaken identity based on race," the letter submitted by the GSE students reads. "This letter is a formal request of your ownership, management, and wait staff to offer a response...
Lyons' troubles began to surface last July after Deborah, his wife of 26 years, discovered a deed showing that he shared ownership of a house with Bernice Edwards, a convention liaison. Deborah, believing she had caught her husband in adultery (a charge he denies), made her way to the $700,000 mansion in the tony Tierra Verde neighborhood. Finding his clothes and effects in the lavishly decorated home, she set at least four fires. During the trip home, she hit a tree in her own, less expensive St. Petersburg neighborhood and soon admitted to police that...
...says Jonah. "He just reached out for the highest-ranking Ghanaian." In 1986 Jonah rose to the top job, becoming, according to him, the only black African ceo of a multinational company. "The obstacle to there being more like me on this continent relates to one thing," says Jonah. "Ownership. If Rawlings had not taken a personal interest in the mining sector, the level of prejudice would have kept me underground forever. I still tell my Ghanaians," he adds, "'Don't accept...
...single ownership of the project by Holmes will also lead to more responsible business practices. By owning the property and buildings of the shopping and residential plaza, Holmes will have a strong incentive to internalize any external costs, such as stores that create a lot of litter or noise. It will select "compatible" stores that are attractive to its consumers...