Word: ownerships
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...current conflict of interest policy limits the kinds of interactions researchers can have with businesses in which they have a vested financial interest, like stock ownership. Academic researchers sometimes receive grants to fund their work from private corporations and businesses...
That too is a second chance. Lee had a lifetime contract, which made him a salaried employee--"high salaried," he grants--without ownership of the lucrative characters he created. But when Marvel went into bankruptcy in 1996 (it emerged in 1998), his contract was voided, and associate Peter Paul--Stan Lee Media's co-founder--helped him cut a new deal. Today Lee is Marvel's chairman emeritus ("Whatever the hell that means") and devotes about 10% of his time to that company. He and Paul soon lined up partnerships with such firms as IBM and Macromedia, which supplies...
Chiquita nevertheless cracked the British market through its ownership of a British subsidiary, Fyffes Ltd., which grew bananas in the former British colonies. British consumers paid a relatively high price for those bananas, but Chiquita's margin from this trade was still small compared with the profits from its efficient plantations in Latin America. By 1986, as the European Union began to take shape, Chiquita executives hoped the restrictions would be lifted and its low-cost bananas could take over the market. So Chiquita sold off its Fyffes subsidiary...
...market privileges a model of unencumbered, free ownership where anything and everything can be converted into a commodity," Benhabib says. "But not everything can or should be: health care and babies, education and fresh air may not be the kinds of 'goods' which we, as a society, want to treat as commodities...
Jordan, 36, started sniffing around for an ownership deal last year and almost found one in Charlotte, N.C. NBA commissioner David Stern, well aware of his league's fall from grace because of Jordan's departure, as well as the lockout--league attendance, TV ratings and sales of NBA apparel have dipped--encouraged more sniffing. At least five franchises courted His Airness...