Word: ownerships
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...make high schools more accountable--the first bill was directed more at younger kids--and a proposal that would make community colleges more accessible through increased financial aid. Other proposals will stress greater personal control over health insurance and personal initiative rather than government programs to promote home ownership and retirement savings. One plan he may talk more about is the Newt Gingrich--led idea to lower health-care costs by computerizing the nation's vast medical records...
...Simon Champion, leisure analyst at Deutsche Bank, leaving online agents with fewer rooms to hawk. Europe's holiday firms must be wondering when they'll get their break. Hallyday In The Sun It's his biggest hit ever: Johnny Hallyday, France's most popular rock star, last week secured ownership of his personal catalog of some 3,500 songs spanning 43 years from his longtime record label, Universal Music. A Paris court sided with the 61-year-old rocker's claims that the company cheated him by offering a series of favorable loans, and then held debts over his head...
Taiwan has some of the toughest gun-control laws in the world. Private ownership of firearms is largely outlawed; people convicted of illegally making, transporting or selling guns can face the death penalty. But several high-profile shootings?including a June 16 gun battle between police and suspected kidnappers in Taichung City that left two cops dead, and the March 19 assassination attempt on President Chen Shui-bian?have prompted a crackdown on illegal firearms. Over the past several months, more than 90 people suspected of illegal possession have been detained and more than 100 weapons seized. Lawmakers also plan...
...accidents are now the third leading cause of death after aids and heart attacks, according to the country's Ministry of Public Health. In China and India, where members of expanding middle classes are taking to the roads in record numbers, crash rates are growing out of control. Car ownership in China jumped 41% between 1999 and 2002, while over the same period accidents increased twice as fast, by more than 83%. P.K. Sikdar, director of the Central Road Research Institute, a New Delhi-based traffic consultancy, ranks the carnage in India right up there with his country's natural...
...surrounding plain. For thousands of years the local Aborigines in this arid stretch of the southeastern Kimberley region, members of the Jaru and Walmajarri tribes, have known the crater as Kandimalal. Here on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert, Dreaming tracks meet and cross, and while traditional ownership is shared between the tribes, their myths, told and retold over the generations by different family and gender groups, offer a variety of accounts of the crater's creation...