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As the Iranian government found out when, through a series of front companies, it owned a building in the very heart of Manhattan, on Fifth Avenue, despite American sanctions.
You can simply keep adding layers, companies owned by companies.
My grandpa owned and operated a sheet metal kitchen cabinet factory in Brooklyn.
When we got evicted, sometimes we lived in these small apartments that she owned, sometimes in only one or two rooms, because they weren't completed, and we would heat our bathwater on hot plates.
For this, the Stasi owned 17 remand prisons, one in every district.
In Boulder, Colorado, voters not too long ago approved a process to replace the private power company, literally the power company, the electric company Xcel, with a publicly owned utility that would forego profits and attend far more to climate change.
They owned an average of half an acre and paid on average two Euros in premium.
And further, I should invite him to meet my oldest trustee, who had majored in French history at Yale some 70-odd years before and, at 89, still ruled the world's largest privately owned textile empire with an iron hand.
And the origin of the city, our identity, is not really connected to the buildings that fell, it is connected to the river, but the river cannot be accessed publicly, because its shores are privately owned.
My dad was a roofer, construction guy, he owned small businesses, and at 80, he was ready to retire and his tar kettle was my inheritance.
When I met her, she had walked about 12 miles in the only garments she owned, to come to the capital city and to share her story.
They are an open-source, publicly owned design language of the community.
In 2000, the Indian Supreme Court held that the holy books of the Sikh religion was a legal person, and in 2012, just recently, there was a treaty between the indigenous peoples of New Zealand and the crown, in which it was agreed that a river was a legal person who owned its own riverbed.
In flight, my observation reveals thousands of plastic white bundles owned by a conservation industry that claims it's eco-friendly and recycles millions of tires to preserve people's lives and to improve people's lives.
WhatsApp, which is now owned by Facebook and used by hundreds of millions of people around the world, also has built strong encryption technology into its product, which means that people in the Global South can easily communicate without their governments, often authoritarian, wiretapping their text messages.
We never owned a home, a car, a washing machine, and for most of my childhood, we didn't even have a telephone.
Now, in order to file that application in the first place, she has to navigate over 1,000 different websites and over 900 different call-in numbers, all owned and operated by the United States government.
And that meant they were market based, or they were government owned, depending on what kind of system they were in.
It used to be wireless was one person owned the license, they transmitted in an area, and it had to be decided whether they would be licensed or based on property.
It's now owned, much of it by big industries.
And everyone agreed that France owned the gold.
Well think about this: in 1983, 90 percent of American media were owned by 50 companies.
What if, rather than Airbnb being a $25 billion corporation, there was a distributed application on a blockchain, we'll call it B-Airbnb, and it was essentially owned by all of the people who have a room to rent.
So today, there are companies working to create an identity in a black box, the virtual you owned by you.
If I owned the Internet, Napster, Monster and Friendster.com would be one big website.
And the biggest issue is, we went from a set of conscious investors owning the stock to it potentially being owned by investors who don't care about these issues and don't care what you think about these issues.
So this one's now asking about homeownership: For every 100 households, how many are owned with a mortgage or loan?
I relieved myself of the burdens that I'd wrongfully shouldered, and he, in turn, wholeheartedly owned up to what he'd done.
And on top of this period in his life of extreme vulnerability and fragility, Dylan found access to guns even though we'd never owned any in our home.
So I went over there and plopped down like I owned the place, and I'm playing, and all of a sudden, the boy next to me, he was wearing a white shirt with blue shorts.
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