Word: ownerships
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...king Ramirez (.351, 38, 122), as well as Everett (.300, 34, 108) and All-Star closer Derek Lowe (4-4, 2.56 ERA, 42 saves). They've got one of baseball's best managers in Williams--who provides Boston's hardball beat reporters with fresh "Jimywocky" insights each day--and ownership more and more willing to shell out the big bucks necessary to compete with the evil Yankees and other big-market teams...
...exporter of coffee (behind Brazil) in the past decade, and last year it was the No. 1 exporter of the robusta bean. But there's a bleaker story behind the impressive statistics. After the war years, the communist government embarked on a major resettlement campaign: it banned collective land ownership, declared traditional tribal lands state property available for redistribution and forbade nomadic slash-and-burn farming practices, forcing hill tribes to settle down. Complaints of corruption in doling out the land have been rife here as elsewhere in the country. In the 1990s coffee helped fuel a 12% average growth...
Currently, former Pi Eta members hold a majority stake in the board that owns the house. Under terms of the ownership agreement, though, ownership of the house will eventually shift to Sigma Chi if no sale takes place...
...forgetfulness, the barren landscape, which inhabits and nurtures no one or thing, is the telltale backdrop for the emotional and psychological journey that the two take. It is in this scenic nothingness and nakedness that Lena, a woman battered and dominated by her incapacitated husband, learns to assert her ownership of herself. Boesman is a man frustrated by his inability to be free, crushed by the weight of apartheid. Eventually, after much personal loss, he even uses his fists against Lena's body to ease his own heartache; it is the only way he can express his anger without disrupting...
...written about how concentrated corporate ownership, as practiced by many European social democratic countries, can hinder transparency and shareholder rights...