Word: ownerships
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...shares our goals." Whatever spirit of cooperation that survives in his second term may have to be found among his opponents; he has made it clear he's not about to change his mind as he takes on Social Security and the tax code in pursuit of his "ownership society." So unfolds the strange and surprising and high-stakes decade of Bush...
...Parmalat's Brazilian group. News of the transaction sent Parmalat stock soaring 17% in a single day. Bondi alleges that this transaction fraudulently made a loan look like an equity infusion, a charge the bank denies. The refinancing was even more controversial because Sala, it turns out, had an ownership interest in the company formed to handle it. Bank of America says it didn't know that at the time. Sala has been indicted along with two other Milan-based Bank of America bankers. One of them, Antonio Luzi, told magistrates how Sala had given him a total...
...Squeezed in China, Lenovo finally began talks with IBM, and an all-night negotiating session ended last Wednesday morning when the head of the Lenovo team sent a text message reading, "Everything is O.K.," to CEO Yang Yuanqing. Yang quickly approved a deal that gives Lenovo ownership of one of the world's most trusted brands. For the next 18 months, household-name products like ThinkPad will carry IBM's name. After that they'll switch to both the Lenovo and IBM brands, and in five years "there will be no more IBM personal computers," says Yang, who will leave...
...donned its current name in 1997, when it came under new ownership. (Previously, it had been called Drumlin’s Pub.) The name change set off bureaucratic alarm bells. The Cambridge License Commission initially refused to approve the new name, maintaining that it could prove offensive to Cambridge residents. But by the time the Commission conceded, bar owner Philip Blair was irritated...
...than was planned for. And the to-do list keeps growing. To the current development-speak goals of "capacity building," "improved governance" and "budget stabilization" must be added infrastructure, communications, shipping, electoral reform, media and resource monitoring. In what order should they be tackled? On signal issues like land ownership and use - key to the country's economic security - the visitors won't be stepping in. "Land will remain the core political issue in our lifetimes," says Batley. "It requires attention and resources and a lot of work to manage. It's one area where foreigners can help...