Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rose firm. She was in buoyant spirits, relieved that she and her husband could stop worrying about the Clintons. She sat down across from Hillary at her desk, thinking how she might brighten up the office if it was hers, as Hillary read the proposed transfer of ownership. "What is this?" Hillary demanded, her tone cold. Susan's smile froze...
...were merely rapists and "craven degenerate[s]." Though it might be painful for the righteous to admit, our nation's father, George Washington, was a slave owner, as were Thomas Jefferson and numerous other prestigious Americans. Their greatness does not legitimize the fact that they owned slaves, but that ownership does not make them degenerate rapists. I also though that it was a bit presumptuous of Mr. Brown to call two sitting United States Senators "jabbering Neanderthals." Lord knows that many people disagree with Sen. Jesse Helms' and Sen. Strom Thurmond's views, but I believe that the office they...
...loyalty to the elderly constituency, but if Russell really wants to promote a greater city than she will not force this issue upon the University. As a member of the more conservative local party, she understands that the real estate market functions most efficiently when it is under private ownership and unburdened by price controls. Massachusetts has abolished rent-control; so we hope that she abides...
...East Sea as the Koreans call it) on Tuesday, perpetuating a dispute that has simmered for nearly a century. The rocky little islands (called Tok-do by Koreans and Takeshima by the Japanese) 150 miles from each the coasts of both countries are not significant in themselves, but recognized ownership of the islets -- now inhabited by a lone South Korean fisherman and a small South Korean military force -- hold the key to uncontested exploitation of the rich natural resources thought to surround the island. Both Japan and Korea claimed exclusive rights to the resources today but did not mention...
Preval accepts--for now--that privatization is the price he must pay for foreign aid and investment, but he is determined to keep majority ownership in Haiti's hands. He lays out other tough priorities: increasing food production, cutting the bureaucracy, modernizing tax collection. "We have to face the situation as it is," he says. "I know the task seems impossible. But I am not afraid, because in my head my vision is very clear." Preval, says a Port-au-Prince political commentator, "will be lucky if he gets three months" to enact that vision before people revolt. Strikes, protests...