Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While my aunt's farm provided a lovely backdrop for our family's reunion, many planners suggest that sticky problems over "ownership" of the reunion can be averted if you choose a site on neutral ground--an attractive location equally convenient to most of the clan. As many relatives as possible should be enlisted in putting on the show, whether to cook or deliver a toast...
...their models, where guns are restricted and crime is reduced. They do not point to Switzerland, where there is a gun in every home and crime is practically nonexistent. Nor do they cite as sources criminology professor Gary Kleck of Florida State University, whose studies have shown that gun ownership reduces crime when gun owners defend themselves, or Professor John R. Lott Jr. of the University of Chicago Law School, whose research has indicated that gun regulation actually encourages crime...
...president promised UPI faithful that the reporting stalwart would not be abandoned. The Scripps family said especially that selling to foreign owners would be a last resort, since UPI is an American news company. Reuters and Agence France Presse might sneak across the borders, but the Scrippses felt offshore ownership would compromised the company's excellence. Today a Saudi group, including the brother-in-law of King Fahd owns UPI. But how can anyone complain? It beats the embezzlers whose hard time still makes the old Brit grin...
...suggestion of HSPH colleagues Matthew Miller and David Hemenway, Wechsler decided to include a question about handgun ownership...
...suggestion of HSPH colleagues Matthew Miller and David Hemenway, Wechsler decided to include a question about handgun ownership...