Word: ownerships
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...CRITICIZED SOME INDIGENOUS LEADERS FOR TREATING ABORIGINES LIKE "MUSEUM PIECES." Some of them are pretty hypocritical - they attack me about my views on (Aboriginal land) ownership and I say, Do you own your own home? They usually say yes. I think they've lost touch a bit with the ordinary lives of people. But I get off the train in Redfern and walk to my office, and it confronts me every day. Aboriginal people say to me, At least you're here so we can give you a spray - others we never...
...FAVOR A SHAKE-UP OF INDIGENOUS POLICIES? Governments of all persuasions tend to just chuck money at problems and hope they'll go away. The real issue is that we as Aboriginal people have to take ownership of, and responsibility for, things...
...including the famous golden portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, the painting's original owner - were suddenly no longer theirs. After a seven-year legal battle, an Austrian arbitration court ruled that the paintings, valued at $150 million, were the property of a California woman who had sued Austria for ownership, and four other heirs. The paintings had been confiscated by the Nazis in 1938 from Bloch-Bauer's wealthy, art-collecting Jewish family and then handed over to the Austrian government after the war. For years, Maria Altmann, 89, the niece of Adele Bloch-Bauer, has sought to reclaim them...
...bureaucratic quirk that makes sense only at Harvard, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will transfer ownership of the building this year to the University’s central administration, according to two people familiar with the sale...
...unemployment are low, and foreign trade continues to grow, boosted by free-trade agreements with the U.S., Canada, Mexico, the European Union, South Korea and others; new trade pacts are being negotiated with China and India. Infrastructure has been significantly upgraded, crime is down and college enrollment and home ownership...