Word: selling
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Eminent domain is still in Vellucci's vocabulary. Last winter he proposed forcing the University to sell the Harvard Motor House to the city for use as a shelter for homeless people. Nothing came of that, either...
...arms dealer, has been trying to import up to 200,000 American-made M-1s that the U.S. Army shipped to South Korea during World War II and the Korean War. The company hopes to reap as much as $30 million by buying the rifles for $150 apiece and selling them to antique-gun collectors for $300. But the Treasury Department has barred the deal under the provisions of the Arms Export Control Act. In the agency's view, it is illegal -- not to mention ironic -- for a company to sell Americans guns that the U.S. gave to a foreign...
...form what would be the second largest U.S. line, after Burlington Northern (25,500 miles). The Interstate Commerce Commission, though, ruled that the combination stifled competition and that the new Santa Fe Southern Pacific Corp. must dispose of one of its lines. Last week the company said it would sell the Southern Pacific to the Rio Grande for $1.8 billion, creating the fifth biggest U.S. railroad...
Murdoch, under a June 30 deadline for resolving a dual ownership in Kennedy's home state of Massachusetts, has declared he will keep the Boston Herald and sell WXFT television. In New York, Murdoch has until March 6 to rid himself either of the Post or WYNW television...
...ownership" restrictions, which make it impossible for the same individual to own both a daily newspaper and television station in the same area. To keep Boston's Channel 25, and New York's Channel 5, integral to his attempt to build a fourth t.v. network, Murdoch will have to sell the papers...