Word: ownerships
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...would you explain your ownership of three television networks, the largest publisher in italy and other media holdings to the American people? My own TV stations are critical of me. I can't blame them. How do you demonstrate your independence? By criticizing your own boss. I believe I was the most hands-off TV owner ever in Italy. Since I entered politics, I haven't made one phone call to my business group...
...held on to their slaves. Like many other white colonists during the years leading up to the American Revolution, they grew to dislike slavery but not so much as to sacrifice their investments. When he returned to Philadelphia in May 1775, five months after Deborah died, Franklin passed along ownership of one slave, George, to his daughter Sally and her husband but kept Peter and Jemima at his side...
...tucked just off the Senate floor looks like a spot designed for polite conversation. But the dialogue was anything but polite when media magnate Rupert Murdoch lunched there in early June with Democratic Senators. The session was supposed to be a private discussion of the effects that looser media-ownership rules would have on consolidation and competition. Instead, the Democrats spent an hour venting about Murdoch's enormously successful Fox News Channel. They complained that the cable network, whose slogan is "fair and balanced," shuts out and even mocks anything but right-wing views. California's Barbara Boxer told Murdoch...
...Waibamiao museum complex in the northeastern Chinese resort town of Chengde, has been accused of carting off 158 ancient relics, some of which ended up on the black market and at the Christie's auction house in Hong Kong, according to police. (Christie's says it researched ownership and found no evidence that the pieces were stolen.) Li was allegedly a classic bag man, removing the items one at a time in a sack. When authorities raided his home in December, they found that it "looked like a museum inside," recalls one Chengde police official. Although corrupt museum officials...
...type of charter lets clients fly on a sleek private jet without having to buy one--or having to buy into a so-called fractional-ownership program. These services do, however, make customers prepay for blocks of flight time. Among the biggest carriers of this type are Delta AirElite Business Jets, a wholly owned Delta subsidiary based in Cincinnati, Ohio; Marquis Jet Partners of New York City; Sentient Private Jet Membership of Norwell, Mass.; and Bombardier Skyjet, based in Fairfax, Va. Through Delta's AirElite service, which launched in February, customers pay a minimum...