Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such unsung goodness that some almost wished its secrecy had been preserved. Charles F. Feeney, 66, a businessman from New Jersey, had during the past decade given away more than $600 million through his two charitable foundations. At least $3.5 billion more--the entire value of Feeney's ownership stake in the duty-free shop empire DFS Group Ltd., which he turned over to the foundations in 1984--remains in the trusts' coffers. Feeney's beneficence already ranks among the grandest of any living American and may someday make him the most generous philanthropist of all time...
...reverted areas represent a broad swath of the national territory, and their development could transform Panama. But there are more skeptics than optimists. Panama's dream is to become another Singapore--a prosperous banking, transportation and tourism hub exploiting to the fullest its ownership of one of the world's most important waterways. The alternate, nightmare vision, unfortunately, is of a nation handed a great resource that it then wastes through corruption and mismanagement...
...Spanish slave ship and the series of trials that followed to determine the fate of the slaves on board. A number of parties, including Queen Isabella II of Spain, the Spaniards on board the ship, representatives from Cuba and a pair of British naval officers made claims to ownership of the ship and its cargo of slaves once it turned up on American shores. Abolitionists, here portrayed by Morgan Freeman and Matthew McConaughey, tried to have the slaves set free altogether...
Though we appreciate the Coop's efforts to renovate itself, we cannot support the sneaky invasion of a corporate behemoth, Barnes & Noble, under the guise of Coop ownership. One of the Square's greatest assets is its variety of small bookstores. We can't help but fear that the temptations of large volume discounts and cafe croissants will eventually lead to the demise of Harvard's more charming academic booksellers. Let's hope that instead students will continue to patronize theme bookstores in the Square, not a warehouse with shelves...
...Goodmans, but got to keep its commission of more than $100,000 on the original sale. "We sell thousands of works of art every year and check every one of them with an electronic data bank," explains a spokesman for the auction house. "In this case, the disputed ownership did not turn...