Word: ownership
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...University’s ownership of stock in companies that conducted business in South Africa and the country’s status as an apartheid state continued to stir debate on campus well into the 1980s and attracted national media attention...
Both professors say they encouraged Anderson to promote the oath as a grassroots initiative. Nohria said the sense of student ownership has helped make the movement successful on campus...
...sought to protect “our constitutional right to own a piece of this earth” but also advocated government ownership of parks so that open space and natural beauty can be enjoyed “by generations not yet born.” Unlike many Republicans today, he not only opposed well-intentioned yet harmful laws and regulations but was also able to clearly explain why market laws are preferable to some government pursuits (without instinctively accusing it of being socialistic...
...experts expect it will - the change marks a new direction in health care for GM retirees, putting them in much the same camp as Chrysler retirees. Each group will now receive health-care benefits from two underfunded vehicles known as VEBAs (Voluntary Employee Benefit Association), which will have ownership stakes in the auto companies and representation on the corporate boards. Though the VEBA for each company was set up prior to bankruptcy, health-care administration largely remained with the automakers. Now it's all VEBA, all the time. (See "General Motors: 10 Milestones on the Road to Bankruptcy...
...movement's positions range from reasonable - such as reforming corruption in politics and pushing for an unbiased state-run media - to questionable at best, with one PAD leader recently praising North Korea's land reform program, saying that although North Koreans were starving, they had pride of small land ownership...