Word: ownerships
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...Although the number of German direct shareholders has been falling since 2000, you can still meet plenty of people like Tanja Bartsch, 31, of Munich, who just this spring started putting €150 a month into mutual funds. In France, meanwhile, a survey by TNS Sofres shows that share ownership hit a record in May of 7.1 million, or 16% of adults. The harsh reality is that most Europeans need to keep investing. The slowing economy has done nothing to help governments put their retirement systems in order, while tumbling markets have made private companies that much more anxious...
...story of how Taufik sought to keep a chunk of Freeport shares under Indonesian ownership?which he himself confirms?is one example of what is today Jakarta's hottest topic: the increasingly dominant role the President's husband is exercising at the most senior levels of government and business. This isn't another case of your regular, pushy presidential spouse playing gatekeeper, but of a consummate networker aggressively meddling in matters with national ramifications. To many Indonesians, the flamboyant 58-year-old Taufik is now simply the most powerful man in the country. "If Megawati is Number One and Vice...
...summit in Canada - Palestine won't get American financial aid if it does not crack down on corruption. For that matter, there is no harm in pointing out that market economics will make Palestine more prosperous. But if the Palestinians decide, in their foolishness, to nationalize the ownership of every olive grove in the West Bank, why should anyone else care? Why should that be a ground for withholding recognition of a Palestinian state...
...Today, despite years of preferential treatment, Malays account for no more than one-fifth of corporate ownership, even though they make up more than half the population. Mahathir's attempts to reintroduce English as the medium of instruction and to roll back education and possibly business quotas for Malays have met stiff resistance from ordinary Malays. And his patronage of key Malay businessmen has also been less than successful; many wound up bankrupt, forcing the government to bail them out. "He's fed up," says Azim Zabidi, a former member of UMNO's Supreme Council...
...current intifadeh began in September 2000. Bush mentioned no sanctions for Israeli failure to comply, placing the burden for moving toward peace squarely on the Palestinians. RUSSIA Law of the Land The lower house of the Russia's parliament approved a bill allowing the sale of farmland, restoring private ownership of land, which was abolished after the 1917 Revolution. In a concession to opponents, President Vladimir Putin said there will be no rush to sell land until a proper registry has been set up. Even then, there will be no immediate sell-off. The law bans foreigners from owning farmland...