Word: ownerships
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While the world can sympathize withthe bereaved in the Virginia Tech killings, there seems little point in the American people getting too upset about them. Such killings are merely a form of blood tax that has to be paid for the imagined privilege of gun ownership...
...does not believe that his affects his overall coaching methodology.“One of the most important things to me is having assistant coaches that I can really trust and lean on,” Saretsky explained. “I want each assistant coach to have ownership over their event group.”Indeed, coaching such a diverse group of talent such as what makes up a cross-country or track and field team requires much more than the expertise of one person. While Saretsky and assistant distance coach Ricardo Santos focus on the middle and long...
...Venezuela did nationalize its oil industry in 1976, but in the 1990s it had steadily reopened its fields to foreign investment - in some cases handing the multinationals deals that even conservative Venezuelans considered too sweet. Chavez has just as steadily, and stridently, reversed that policy, paring down the multinationals' ownership while ratcheting up their taxes and royalties. And because Venezuela is America's fourth-largest foreign crude supplier - providing the U.S. with almost 15% of its oil imports - each turn of his nationalization screw tends to provoke outsized alarm...
...world's top 20 oil-producing firms, 14 are state-run. And even though Chavez has now stripped foreign oil companies like Exxon Mobil of any majority stakes they had in Venezuelan oil production projects - mandating that his state-run company, Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), have at least 60% ownership from here on out - he's at least allowing those private multinationals to continue taking part in the drilling. Not so, for example, in Mexico or the world's largest oil producer, Saudi Arabia. Washington touts those two countries as model energy allies, despite the fact that for more than...
...good shape,” Chen said before the court handed down its ruling. “The inventory is low, and not nicely done. If I take it back, I have to fix a lot of things.” Saini confirmed that Chen might soon take back ownership of the store, but declined to comment any further. The property is currently in the process of being returned to Chen, but it is unclear when it will open back up for business, according to Frank Frisoli, Chen’s lawyer. During the time that Chen ran Louie?...