Word: ownership
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...Evan Brown, a former employee of DSC Communications. After the company found out that Brown had dreamed up a way to convert old computer code into an easier-to-use computer language, DSC demanded he turn over the idea, since he had signed an agreement which gives the company ownership of anything he develops while on staff. Brown, who says he developed the idea on his own time, won't budge, insisting that he never wrote the concept down. DSC fired him, but is now taking him to court to try to pry it loose. He's already turned down...
...April 6, 1972, the Pan-African Liberation Committee (PALC) and sympathetic students took over Massachusetts Hall to protest Harvard's ownership of stock in Gulf Oil, which was involved at the time in Angola, a site of Portuguese colonialism...
...from about 7 million in 1984. They own everything from huge, 45-ft. condo-on-wheels-type motor homes to the collapsible trailers that can be towed to a destination behind most any car and then cranked up to full size. A University of Michigan study found that RV ownership has grown by an average of 100,000 a year since the middle of the past decade, and forecasts that demand will rise to 135,000 a year for the next 15 years...
...current events or upcoming headlines; fiction writers hope, after all, that their work will outlast the rapid stream of passing fancies. But Paul Theroux's Kowloon Tong (Houghton Mifflin; 243 pages; $23) arrives as a noteworthy exception to that rule. On June 30 Britain will end its long-term ownership and control of Hong Kong and hand over the colony to the People's Republic of China. Hot off the presses, Kowloon Tong offers Theroux's imaginative version of how some Hong Kong residents have fared--and will fare--in the face of such a monumental and imminent change...
Neville Mullard, 43, lives with his widowed mother Betty in a Hong Kong house called, in honor of their native land, Albion Cottage. The late George Mullard left his wife and son, nicknamed Bunt, half-ownership of Imperial Stitching, a garment-manufacturing firm located in an eight-story building in Hong Kong's Kowloon Tong district. The unexpected death, in early 1996, of Mr. Chuck, the refugee from China who co-founded and owns the other half of Imperial Stitching, leaves the whole shebang to the Mullards, mother and son. Their pleasure in assuming full control is dampened somewhat...