Word: ownership
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Turkey is still smoldering over scams Schliemann committed in the 1870s. Engin Ozgen, the government's general director of monuments and museums, has sent nine communiques to officials in Bonn and Moscow, claiming ownership of the treasure and asking to be included in negotiations over their fate. "We have had no answer," he says. The Turks would like to gather the Troy artifacts from Russia, Germany and the other countries where they've been dispersed and display them in a museum near the actual site...
...building's ownership changed hands recently, according to a local merchant. The merchant said that in September, MIT bought the building in which Patisserie Francaise was located...
That's what Chanel president Arie L. Kopelman calls investment dressing--paying big bucks for attire that can wear well and remain a fashion statement for years to come. "It's not just a phrase," Kopelman says of his coinage. "It [means] pride in ownership." He's not lacking for "investors": sales rose 20% at Chanel last year...
...have to put up with the vice market of prostitution?" The Supreme Court, in a decision written by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, and joined by Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Ginsburg, agreed that only the nature of the crime, not the nature of the ownership, need be considered in forfeitures...
...recommended by a professional person who has known them for at least two years. But Hamilton, apparently, had no problem getting licensed to own the two .357 revolvers and two 9mm pistols he used in the killings. In all, only one percent of gun applicants were rejected for ownership in 1994. "To use a gun is not a right," legislator Alex Carlisle said. "To take proper steps to avoid the disastrous misuse of guns is a duty of government and of every sensible citizen." Guns are relatively rare in Britain where there are about 400,000 privately owned firearms among...