Word: ownership
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...full service in the United Kingdom, where BT controls more than 90% of the local phone connections. Allen urged regulators to make scrutiny of the merger "a global priority of the highest order." In the U.S., where BT will ask for a waiver of the 25% ceiling on foreign ownership of American communications companies, such scrutiny could take up to a year...
...least the past five years. But David Harris, a former top official of the Canadian intelligence service who has studied the infiltration of Chinese spies into North American commerce, describes Huang's free pass as "horrendous." It is particularly disturbing, Harris says, because Lippo's shared ownership of a Hong Kong bank with the Beijing government could have opened an intelligence gusher to the People's Republic. "This failure could undermine the confidence of U.S. allies," Harris says. "Given Huang's history and background, it was unthinkable that an intelligence service wouldn't have done a foreign field check...
...case you're wondering, the link between the Crimson and the Whalers extends to team ownership. The Whalers are owned by Peter Karmanos, father of Jason Karmonos '96, a forward who graduated last year and is now playing for Richmond of the ECHL...
...finally get in touch with Jane Fossett, the vice-chair of the Mohegan tribe. She tells me the sad history of the tribe and how the money generated by the casino will go to fund health care and housing for the elderly. I ask her--after she concedes that "ownership isn't part of our culture"--if there is a contradiction in the tribe entering a business venture that grates against its traditional values. But she shrugs off the question as naive. "We have to live in a non-Indian world," she lectures me, "and in order to live...
...strategically committed to cable because the company sees the cable-telephone hybrid as the perfect pipeline into consumers' homes, capable of handling video, voice and data. It might be willing to give Time Warner its freedom--as well as a guaranteed outlet for programming--in exchange for majority ownership of the cable assets...