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Restituents -- those 18% of respondents who received property previously owned by a member of their family but confiscated by the communists in 1947 -- are similarly cheery: 66% of them express satisfaction with reform, versus 49% for non-restituents.
But that is neither how US firms are owned, nor how US corporate elections work.
The term “capitalism” used to mean an economic system in which capital was privately owned and traded; owners of capital got to judge how best to use it, and could draw on the foresight and creative ideas of entrepreneurs and innovative thinkers.
Nevertheless, although one-third of the West Bank was closed to Palestinians to make room for a few thousand Jewish settlers, only 10% of its largely rural population were refugees, many owned their land, and a variety of jobs was available.
There, we find ice cream parlors called "Baskin-Robbins," restaurants owned by locals called "Café California," and bars with names like "Apocalypse Now."
Silvio Berlusconi, another real-estate billionaire, who began his career as a crooner on a cruise ship, was even more outrageous than Trump, as well as a master of the mass media – literally so, as he owned most of it in his country.
In both cases, because some bondholders owned CDS contracts, they stood to gain more from bankruptcy than from reorganization.
So he closed the opposition-leaning private Imedi TV station (owned by Patarkatsishvili) and introduced a state of emergency for nine days, before calling an early presidential election for January 5.Ever since Saakashvili’s inauguration in January 2004, following the 2003 “Rose Revolution,” Georgia’s government has displayed EU flags on official occasions.
Within a few years, as their loan books began to grow rapidly, Compartamos and SKS created for-profit businesses that were owned by their respective NGOs.
But regional and sub-regional financial institutions owned by developing countries can and should play an important and valuable complementary role.
MOSCOW – The decision by BP and the Russian shareholders of TNK-BP to sell their stakes to Russia’s state owned Rosneft crowns a very successful year for the company – and for Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin.
Faced with such a hostile environment, Chinese private entrepreneurs have been forced to engage in “institutional arbitrage” – taking advantage of efficient Western economic institutions to expand their business (most export-oriented businesses are owned by private entrepreneurs and foreign firms).
Even in the 15 years that we have owned this former tobacco farm, further progress has left its mark.
Only by removing them from the equation can we implement truly groundbreaking measures – such as renewable-energy systems owned and operated by communities – that put people and our planet’s survival above the industry’s bottom line.
It drew a line across lower Manhattan and offered anyone living below that line the equivalent of three months' rent (or, if they owned their own apartment, three months' mortgage and maintenance payments).
In Eastern Europe, most new EU members’ banking sectors are owned by banks based elsewhere in the EU.
Highway spending is allocated in proportion to the number of cars owned by the family and estimated miles driven.
Many service firms in Asia are owned by the public sector, so governments have less incentive to deregulate services.
Although the government owns Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer, it is Chile’s only publicly owned company.
By 2015, that share had risen to about 80%, meaning that most capital held by public corporations today is owned and traded by bondholders.
But some of the largest funds – in fact, most of the brand names in the industry – use the clever trick of securing the debt they issue with collateral owned by the company they buy.
And the influence that great left-of-center newspapers, like The New York Times, once had has long been eclipsed by radio talk-show hosts, rightwing cable TV stations, tabloid newspapers (largely owned by Rupert Murdoch in the English-speaking world), and social media.
So the Italians have been quite competitive and became rich – but the Italian state has a lot of debt, mostly owned by Italians.
Just days ago in the Northeastern province of Mandera, men from the Degodia clan torched homes and businesses owned by members of the rival Gare clan.
Most of those responsible for the mistakes – whether at the US Federal Reserve, the US Treasury, Britain’s Bank of England and Financial Services Authority, the European Commission and European Central Bank, or in individual banks, have not owned up to their failures.
As recently as 2000, China owned only about $60 billion in US Treasuries, or roughly 2% of the outstanding US debt of $3.3 trillion held by the public.
When media outlets aren’t owned – and tamed – by the authorities or people close to them, they still face censorship, intimidation, tax audits, and occasionally assassination of their journalists and editors.
And, while state-controlled entities receive support from their governments, so do privately owned MNEs.
In order to address concerns about “competitive neutrality,” policies must address the extent to which firms – whether state-controlled or privately owned – receive official support for their outward investment.
To that end, a politically neutral body, owned by the private sector or central banks, should be established to issue the asset.
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