Word: ownerships
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Under Solano’s ownership since 1974, the shop has retained the intimacy of an exclusive club, but the community has become much more expansive, if no less illustrious. Indeed, the shop remains what it has always essentially been: a cluttered, charming shrine to the written word. Gazing down from on high, over more than 19,000 volumes of poetry stacked on only 404 square feet of floor space, are the black and white portraits of our greatest poets...
...gives them practice, and it gives people a real ownership of the program,” Hyde says...
...Berlusconi in the Milan case and chairing the lower house's justice committee - where he has been spearheading the passage of laws that directly affect the trials against his client and other political allies. Is this another glaring conflict of interest for Berlusconi, who has been criticized for retaining ownership of Italy's three major private television networks while running the country? Pecorella says there's no conflict, noting that both he and the Prime Minister abstain from casting votes on the laws related to Berlusconi's cases. Critics say their votes are scarcely needed - Berlusconi's ruling center-right...
...Austria have two separate boards - one for day-to-day management and the other, which by law includes employee representatives, for oversight. The U.K., with its freewheeling capitalist culture and well-established stock market, is in many respects closer to the U.S. than to its Continental neighbors, where ownership is often more concentrated. But even the British have misgivings about the new U.S. legislation. "We must place on record the firm view in support of the principle that regulation of audit and corporate governance is a matter for individual countries," the Confederation of British Industry wrote to the sec. Jaap...
...company that manages Harvard’s endowment came under scrutiny this summer for its ownership of more than $28 million worth of stock in Harken Energy Corporation...