Word: ownerships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reminds his son that the crown that "in me was purchas'd, falls upon thee in a more fairer sort" (Shakespeare's way of saying that the king usurped the crown). In The Merry Wives of Windsor, the devil holds Sir John Falstaff in "fee-simple" (complete ownership). In Troilus and Cressida, even Greeks and Trojans talk in terms of "fee-form" (tenure without limit). "Lease" is used to express transience: life is a "lease of nature" (Macbeth); "summer's lease hath all too short a date" (Sonnet 18). As for "tenant," Hamlet's gravediggers argue...
Harvard will probably run into a number of stumling blocks when new bidding is opened. Last year it was evident that at least one of the three MTA trustees strongly opposed University acquisition of the Yards. There is also significant opposition on the Cambridge, City Council to Harvard's ownership of the eminently taxable land. These local forces could try to influence bidding in favor of a private developer...
...obstactle to transfering ownership of the land may lie with the MDC which is obligated by state law to reserve the tract for extension of the Belmont-Arlingon MTA line. Nevertheless, Rep. O'Neill said last night that the law "probably could be taken care...
...More Tons. With their stock cheaper and more plentiful after a split, most companies usually find themselves with more stockholders. They like this because widely scattered ownership gives more stability to the stock price and allows it to reflect the company's earnings performance more precisely, rather than to flutter at every new headline. In addition, a split gives the company a wider base on which to draw for new capital. A.T. & T. is raising $1.2 billion by giving its 2,250,000 stockholders the right to buy additional shares of its common stock at a special price. Such...
...electricity and 80% of soft coal. In 1959 the government finally sold off to 216,000 German buyers an 84% interest in Preussag, a huge mining and oil company. In 1961 another 1,500,000 Germans bought shares representing 60% of Volkswagen. Though it prefers this spreading of share ownership, known as Volksaktien or "peoples' shares," the government has also sold several dozen small companies to private firms...