Word: ownerships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worth of common stock in the U.S. next month. Besides Sony, 15 other Japanese companies are considering putting securities on sale in the U.S. soon. To cut red tape and long transpacific transactions, Sony will give U.S. investors American depositary receipts instead of stock certificates. These will carry full ownership rights and can be freely traded in the U.S. As an added lure, the Japanese government last week ruled that foreign shareholders in Japanese firms may withdraw all of their capital and profits after two years instead of four...
...William B. Benton also quit the business in 1935, and like Bowles headed into the upper reaches of Democratic Party politics (as Bowles-appointed U.S. Senator from Connecticut) while staying in the upper brackets with his ownership of Muzak and his large holdings in the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
...seemed the most promising. Its membership was carefully distributed to avoid reflecting world power divisions. Its statutes were painstakingly designed to assure thorough exploration of the issues. But more and more the World Court has proved to be the court of minor resort; e.g., Britain and France amiably dispute ownership of the tiny Channel Islands-which neither really wants much. Since the Court cannot force a nation to submit to its jurisdiction, both partners to a dispute must agree to let the Court rule. In big issues, agreement is rare...
...cooperation, the Russians keep the 30,000 Soviet troops stationed in Poland close to their barracks and out of the towns. Until recently, Moscow has respected two big concessions won by the Poles in 1956, which have survived more or less intact. One is the principle of private ownership of the farms; the other is relative freedom for the Catholic Church...
Volpe mentioned the "limitations" that the original grantors had placed on the land, limitations cited earlier by Charles W. Eliot II '20, professor of City and Regional Planning. When the townspeople originally set the land aside as a common, they stipulated that it revert to original ownership if used for any but the public weal...