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| | Ownership - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The advantage in placing the ownership of an asset in the name of an entity is that the asset is protected from law suits against the owner of the entity. | | | When there is risk involved in the ownership of an asset as in the case of investment real estate the ownership of that asset is often made in the name of a corporate entity. | | | Ownership is open to anyone that has the money and inclination to buy shares in the company. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ownership
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| | Public ownership - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Public sector institutions have access to finance at government interest rates, which are (almost) always lower than even the most financially secure private sector firms, because the government cannot go bankrupt, which means less risk to the lender. | | | Public ownership of profitable services may lead to "gold-plating" (over-investment in assets) if decisions are driven by engineering ideals and not efficiency concerns. | | | Public ownership can protect consumer interests in sectors where competition is low, where choices are important but made infrequently, and/or where consumers do not have the expertise to make good decisions (such as in health care). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_ownership
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| | Greens Policies > Public Ownership |
| | Public ownership historically has proved to be the only way to ensure that essential services are provided to all citizens in an equitable way, by allowing the basis of their provision to be social need rather than maximizing private profits. | | | Public sector employment levels are almost always reduced as a result of privatisation and in many cases there is not a corresponding increase in private sector employment. | | | The public sector is a vital component of the economy, essential for achieving the goals of social equality, ecological sustainability and economic development. |
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http://www.nsw.greens.org.au/policies/PublicOwnership.php
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| | Private or Public?: Finding the Optimum Balance Between Private and Public Ownership or Management |
| | Also the level of accountability of a public manager is generally lower than that of a private manager, and the culture of value creation for shareholders is stronger in the private than public sector. | | | Public economic governance need not be always worse than corporate governance, introducing corporate mentality, meritocracy culture, value creation culture, family spirit, and simultaneously enhancing the cult of public service in the literary sense rather than as an abstract concept. | | | Civil service and public sector reform through commercialization and possibly corporatization are the most effective ways in my view to address the problems of public and SOE governance and raise efficiency and accountability. |
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http://sangha.net/papers/PUBLIC.html
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| | Public Land Exchange Policy - Conservation Policies - Sierra Club |
| | Land traded out of public ownership generally should be of lesser biological and ecological value, unless higher value land is traded to a party dedicated to its conservation, that party's management of the land would afford more protection than is currently provided under public management, and the public interest is protected. | | | Public land should be retained in public ownership and only traded in circumstances that meet the highest environmental standards. | | | A public land exchange is any transaction other than a sale that transfers publicly owned land (federal, state, county or municipal) from one owner to another. |
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http://www.sierraclub.org/policy/conservation/landexchange.asp
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| | Session 4a |
| | The predominance of the public sector in the supply of water was not always the case, however. | | | But while other public utilities remained overwhelmingly private, construction of new public works combined with conversions of private water works to municipal control had tilted the balance to public ownership by the turn of the century. | | | More precisely, our evidence indicates that municipalities were unable to credibly pre-commit to not expropriating value from private water companies once investments were made, resulting in a rational reduction in investment in water provision by private companies. |
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http://www.eh.net/EHA/Meetings/Archives/EHA2002/session4a02.html
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| | public ownership on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Public ownership is to be distinguished from government control of private enterprises in utilities, business, and agriculture. | | | Since World War II many Western nations have practiced public ownership of business enterprises through public corporations such as Amtrak. | | | In the United States, government units own and manage the public school system, public highways and bridges, dams for the reclamation of land and for power (and the management and sale of power), and many other enterprises. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/p1/publicow.asp
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| | Introduction |
| | Calls for acquisition of more public land are sometimes matched by concerns over reductions in municipal tax base, loss of working forests, inadequate public funding, and the inability of the public sector to effectively manage more land with less staff and less resources. | | | Guiding principles in public ownership are to protect, maintain, and enhance the state's ecological resources and biological diversity; protect and provide access to public waters and shore lands; provide outdoor recreation opportunities; provide areas for resource-related research, education, and demonstration sites; and demonstrate sustainable forest management while providing raw materials for the wood products industry. | | | Expanding uses of public land place pressures on both the resource and the managers' abilities to find a balance between resource use and protection. |
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http://www.vtfpr.org/forplan/intro.htm
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| | BBC - GCSE Bitesize - Business Business aims and organisation Public ownership |
| | This cost is called the Public Sector Borrowing Requirement and is funded by taxation, either directly through income tax or indirectly through National Insurance. | | | More public services mean a higher tax bill for everybody, including those who may not benefit from them. | | | The main argument for public ownership is that the whole population benefits rather than just those who can afford to pay privately. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/business/aims/publicsectorrev2.shtml
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| | Greenspan Concern Over Public Ownership or Private Assets - 2/26/01 |
| | Public investment of pension funds in private assets has been successfully accomplished by state and local governments and some foreign governments. | | | If investment of a modest share of trust-fund reserves in equities were approved, the legislation authorizing this investment could establish a low percentage limit on the proportion of the overall equities market that the trust fund's investments would be allowed to constitute. | | | In Denmark, for example, the ATP fund is a public pension fund whose assets amount to 25 percent of GDP. |
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http://www.cbpp.org/2-26-01tax3.htm
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| | A Plea for Public |
| | To most people, "public property" means "government property," on the (dubious) theory that governments hold their property in trust for the public, and administer such property with an eye to the public interest. | | | As for the higher-standards issue, it is true that users of public property face a somewhat greater risk from their fellow users than users of private property do. | | | And if this is so, then public property would not be tolerated in a free nation, because the liability costs would simply be too high. |
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http://www.libertariannation.org/a/f53l1.html
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| | Privatization - Free Encyclopedia |
| | The effect of corporatization has been to convert the state departments into public companies and interpose commercial boards of directors between the shareholding ministers and the management of the enterprises. | | | Nationalised industries are usually guaranteed against bankruptcy by the state, they can therefore borrow money at a lower interest rate to reflect the lower risk of loan default to the lender. | | | Some opponents of privatization often argue that because the driving motive of a private company is profit, not public service, the public welfare may be sacrificed to the demands of profitability. |
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http://www.wacklepedia.com/p/pr/privatization.html
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| | Community and Public Ownership |
| | But there are political parties and governments to whom private profit is more important than service to the community and who privatise community-owned industries and enterprises regardless of the cost to the community. | | | To provide and ensure essential public services in an effective way such as free education to the highest level, a national health service, public transport, postal service, energy and service utilities and public health. | | | Another reason for privatising may be to use the resulting funds for financing tax cuts so as to win an election or redistribute income and wealth from bottom wage-earners to the rich. |
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http://www.solbaram.org/articles/clm506.html
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| | SSRN-What Determines the Extent of Public Ownership? by Hadi Esfahani, Ali Toossi Ardakani |
| | The other points to public enterprises as a substitute for private ones that are driven out when the risk of opportunistic changes in regulatory and tax policies is high. | | | There is a great deal of variation in the extent of state ownership of enterprises across countries and despite the growing consensus over the benefits of privatization many countries continue to maintain large public sectors. | | | We also find that a higher opportunity cost of public funds tends to reduce the extent of state ownership except when commitment capability and pressure for employment control are low. |
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http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=306899
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| | Public Access Altases |
| | Many areas, previously open to general public use, are now included in a federal conservation unit, state legislatively designated unit, or have been conveyed to a Native corporation or other private party. | | | Certain lands, owned by Native corporations, are subject to specifically located easements, as described, in the atlas, that allow the public to use those identified Native corporation lands in limited ways. | | | Permits or special authorizations may be required for certain uses in these areas. |
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http://www.dnr.state.ak.us/mlw/planning/easmtatlas
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| | Journalism.org - Reports & Surveys - Does Ownership Matter in Local Television News? - Public Versus Private ... |
| | The argument here, to oversimplify, is that being freed of the pressures of quarterly profit reports, focus on one's stock price, and meeting industry based measures of profitability and efficiency, would allow companies to better focus on the long-term and on quality. | | | Another issue embedded in the FCC debate, and even discussed among executives of some publicly owned companies, is whether private ownership allows for a greater chance of serving the public interest. | | | For many indicators, such as sourcing, focus on the important underlying trends in stories, the mix of viewpoints, there is little difference between public and private companies in our data. |
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http://www.journalism.org/resources/research/reports/ownership/public.asp
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| | River Ownership |
| | However, it is clear that the public can only use the banks as necessary to make use of the water. | | | Under the Equal Footing Doctrine, the beds and banks of these rivers and streams are a strip of public land, to be conserved for public benefit. | | | In addition, the PLC can, and must, prohibit activities that harm public resources, such as leaving trash or tearing up the beds or banks of a river with vehicles. |
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http://www.cacaponriver.org/articles/ownership.html
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| | River History: Your river rights, for river navigability, river access, river conservation, canoeing, kayaking, ... |
| | Since state governments hold river resources “in trust” for the public, they cannot sell or give them away to private ownership or control. | | | They can manage recreation to conserve resources of public interest, but not simply to reduce or eliminate recreation. | | | On the other hand, they can (and must) prohibit activities that harm public resources, such as leaving trash or tearing up the beds or banks of a river with vehicles. |
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http://www.adventuresports.com/river/nors/us-law-public.htm
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| | Public Ownership and the Community Institute of Policy Studies Victoria University of Wellington |
| | It is a study of their governance and management, which sheds new light on issues of public versus private ownership, mandate, legitimacy and the meaning of community. | | | The trusts’ creation resulted from a series of ad hoc government decisions to solve a problem – ownership – which was peripheral to the main policy objective of restructuring activities on commercial lines. | | | The study argues that these trusts now form an integral part of the governance of New Zealand’s communities, and explores the governance, accountability and broader implications of this. |
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http://www.vuw.ac.nz/ips/publications/economic/public.aspx
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| | Democracy and Capitalism |
| | Recognizing that economic ownership and political control are two aspects of the world we share, we may seek a method of integrating the two in such a manner as to clearly portray how the two interrelate. | | | The public owns the government's research findings that taxpayers fund, but corporations control the patents and profits emerging from such research. | | | Thus the appropriate application of the idea of common ownership through the property tax system would result in both a more equitable distribution of wealth, due to a resulting encouragement for business investment, and a more prosperous economy. |
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http://www.progressiveliving.org/DEMCAP.htm
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| | The Billings Outpost |
| | Among the first business is consideration of the coming year’s budget, which recently passed the House by the narrowest of margins - only a one-vote difference. | | | As folks now know, tucked away deep in that bill is an unrelated provision encouraging sales of the public’s land. | | | Among the most important are: our currency — the dollar; our language — English; and our mutual ownership of the natural resource — public land. |
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http://www.billingsnews.com/story?storyid=18672&issue=297
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| | Beachfront Properties Under Public Ownership |
| | The frequency of updates should be every five to ten years, since properties generally do not change owners on a yearly basis and the cost of producing the report is too high to justify annual updates. | | | Information concerning public access points can be obtained from Phil Flood, Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), Division of Environmental Resource Permitting, Bureau of Beaches and Coastal Systems, 3900 Commonwealth Boulevard, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-3000, or at (904) 487-1262. | | | The state also has an inventory of lands which have been held by the s tate for several years. |
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http://www.pepps.fsu.edu/FACT/sec_G/public.html
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| | Irony of Public Ownership, Tim Leslie |
| | However, unless guarantees of respect for public access to public lands are included, the Conservancy’s purchases could easily become yet another example of the irony of “public” ownership. | | | When pushing for public purchase of the Headwaters, environmental groups emphasized the importance of preserving the area for future generations…presumably so future generations could actually see and enjoy it. | | | The current form of AB 1130 would allow Conservancy decision-makers to act without any accountability to local residents, and would also free the Conservancy to purchase land without establishing how the land will be managed. |
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http://www.crowley-offroad.com/irony_of_public_ownership.htm
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| | Idaho Observer: The Big Lie: Federal ownership of public lands |
| | Many of those in the business of making our natural resources productive have a dim future while our public lands are being closed to the public, and their potential is idled. | | | The State Department of Lands would have to be expanded, or another agency created, to fulfill the new mandate, but government usually doesn't mind getting larger and attaching itself to another revenue stream. | | | The Legislature of Idaho gave no consent for the federal government to purchase these forest lands and federal government did not actually purchase these “forest reserves.” The Forest Service only “administers” the forest reserves. |
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http://proliberty.com/observer/20010802.htm
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| | Newspapers: Ownership |
| | At independent newspapers, smaller private chains, and even the smaller public companies protected by a special family-controlled class of stock, both financial and generational factors bear on the decision about whether to sell or continue. | | | The price for the paper, along with smaller suburban publications, was estimated to be at least $1 billion. | | | Because of its volume of semi-public debt, MediaNews reports most results as a public company would. |
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http://www.stateofthemedia.com/2005/narrative_newspapers_ownership.asp?cat=5&media=2
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| | Incomplete Contracts and Public Ownership: Remarks, and an Application to Public-Private Partnerships |
| | The question of what should determine the boundaries between public and private firms in an advanced capitalist economy is a highly topical one. | | | "Public and Private Sector Discount Rates in Public-Private Partnerships," The Centre for Market and Public Organisation 02/059, Department of Economics, University of Bristol, UK. | | | The Centre for Market and Public Organisation with number 02/061. |
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http://ideas.repec.org/p/bri/cmpowp/02-061.html
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| | City puts out word on utility: We still want it PortlandTribune.com |
| | That is primarily because public utilities do not pay federal income taxes. | | | Capital construction costs also would be $20 million to $60 million a year less, they said, because public utilities can issue revenue bonds at lower rates than private companies can find when borrowing money. | | | Although Sten said the city’s exact offer is confidential, he said it would not be any less than the $2.35 billion offer currently being considered by the PUC. |
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http://www.portlandtribune.com/archview.cgi?id=28066
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| | For Public Ownership |
| | It should be the catalyst for incorporating into the discussion the other issues such as healthcare, education, and housing. | | | For Public Ownership, Not Privatization, in Electric Power, Health, Education… | | | Demand Free Public Education and Housing, and a National Health Care Program |
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http://www.kclabor.org/for_public_ownership.htm
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| | Statement on Ensuring Transparency in FCC Ownership Review |
| | As steward for the public trust, the FCC should not make such important decisions without full participation of the public, full debate and complete transparency of the decision-making process. | | | Government agencies like the FCC should be guardians of openness and transparency and advocates for increased involvement of citizens in major decision-making processes. | | | The decision by the Federal Communications Commission to move forward with a vote on the Commission's Broadcast Ownership Biennial Review ignores significant concerns from the public, legislators, and other interested parties. |
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http://www.prsa.org/_News/leaders/byrum052303.asp
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| | Public Citizen Publications - Reclaiming Public Assets From Private to Public Ownership of Waterworks (pdf) |
| | Because Public Citizen does not accept funds from corporations, professional associations or government agencies, we can remain independent and follow the truth wherever it may lead. | | | Six case studies of cities that have either purchased waterworks from a private company or are currently pursuing a buyout are documented in this report. | | | Reclaiming Public Assets From Private to Public Ownership of Waterworks* |
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http://www.citizen.org/publications/release.cfm?ID=7200&secID=1763&catID=126
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| | Public Policy Review |
| | Starting with the hypothesis that the trend in Arizona is toward governmental ownership – or municipalization – of water provision, my colleague Jackie Moxley and I have begun investigating these questions. | | | A key reason was the need for additional financial resources to upgrade infrastructure and to comply with changing environmental regulations. | | | Recently, I realized use of the term public company could be misconstrued to mean a publicly traded company, such as the large private companies operating water systems in Arizona and elsewhere in the United States. |
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http://ag.arizona.edu/AZWATER/awr/janfeb04/policy.html
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| | CorpWatch : IRAQ: Oil workers Defend Public Ownership |
| | This was made very clear by the May 25-26 Basra Conference on Privatisation of the Public Sector organised by the 23,000-member General Union of Oil Employees (GUOE), according to accounts of the conference given by three British observers at a public forum held in London on June 21. | | | The Basra conference adopted an uncompromising final resolution against the privatisation of not only the Iraqi oil industry, but the entire “public sector economy”. | | | The resolution stated: “The public sector economy of Iraq is one of the symbols of the achievement of Iraqis since the revolution of July 4, 1958, when it overthrew King Faisal II. |
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http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12498
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| | FCC Chairman Michael Powell has ordered a June 2 vote on deregulation of all media caps, what panelist Jonathan Taplin calls a “runaway train.” Congressman Xavier Becerra (Ca.-31) comments that “The FCC is Congress’ baby, now it needs to step in an reconsider that it has unleashed a monster.” | | | Commissioner Adelstein and Copps have informed us that the fix in in. | | | (2) With the help of Clear Channel and News Corporation (Rupert Murdoch), loosen the caps on ownership.” |
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http://www.tombarger.com/fcc.html
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| | Missoulian - Deal to place Alberton Gorge into public ownership |
| | Those parcels, totaling 367 acres and with an appraised value of about $1.1 million, are surrounded by national forest land, and will continue to be managed by the Forest Service for public recreation and resource conservation, Tollefson said. | | | Those future land exchanges will require a process of public involvement, environmental analyses, and appraisals, Tollefson said. | | | Mineral County officials initially opposed the public acquisition of the Alberton Gorge, he said, because it would reduce the tax base of a county that already has 87 percent of its land in state and federal ownership. |
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http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2004/07/28/outdoors/od01.txt
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| | public ownership Definition |
| | This investment strategy involves evaluating a stock by examining the company, especially its operations and its financial condition. | | | Government ownership and operation of an enterprise for the public good. |
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http://www.investorwords.com/3943/public_ownership.html
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| | Public Ownership and Common Ownership by Anton Pannekoek |
| | Exploitation does not mean simply that the workers do not receive the full produce of their labor; a considerable part must always be spent on the production apparatus and for unproductive though necessary departments of society. | | | Under public ownership this belongs to the regulation of the process of production, which is the function of the bureaucracy. | | | the right of disposal, by a public body representing society, by government, state power or some other political body. |
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http://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1947/public-ownership.htm
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| | Real Estate Asset Search Records Real Estate Ownership Records Public Records |
| | Search Real Estate Records to access property tax assessor (latest tax roll) and property transfer (deed transfers) records to find information such as the total assessed value, land value, property owner, and property sales information. | | | Real Estate Asset Search Records Real Estate Ownership Records Public Records |
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http://www.knowx.com/real/search.jsp
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| | The [Baren] Forum - Information message |
| | April 2000: publication of the quarterly newsletter 'Baren-Suji' begins | | | December 1999: the Council is established, to assist in the management of the group | | | To protect subscribers' e-mail addresses, this feature is not available on [Baren], but in the interests of allowing members to expose their work more widely, a public list of |
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http://www.barenforum.org/information.html
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| | cityofsound: Princess Diana and the public ownership of design processes |
| | Often, whether there's actual public ownership or not, it doesn't matter. | | | As a designer working largely within the public realm, I'm all for engaging with the idea of public ownership, featuring true accountability and transparency, and really pursuing what that could mean, across multiple arenas. | | | Princess Diana and the public ownership of design processes |
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http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2004/07/princess_diana_.html
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| | In most states, this means that public ownership begins at the high water mark. | | | Likewise, in posting signs and taking other steps to identify their private property, coastal landowners should not attempt to discourage the public from using the water's edge to the full extent allowable by law. | | | The doctrine states that all rights in tidelands and the water itself are held by the state "in trust" for the benefit of the public. |
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http://www.mass.gov/czm/shorelinepublicaccess.htm
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| | MSN Encarta - Dictionary - public ownership definition |
| | U.K. state control: ownership by the state of something regarded as a national asset such as coal, water, or the telecommunications industry | | | MSN Encarta - Dictionary - public ownership definition | | | Search for "public ownership" in all of MSN Encarta |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=561506794
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| | Well Connected - The Center for Public Integrity |
| | WASHINGTON, November 17, 2005 — More than half of the states received a failing grade on making personal financial information of the nation's utility board members available for public inspection, according to a Center for Public Integrity study examining laws in all 50 states. | | | WASHINGTON, November 17, 2005 — When Martin Cohen was appointed head of the Illinois Commerce Commission, the regulatory body that oversees utilities in the state, he joined a very small fraternity. | | | WASHINGTON, September 29, 2005 — Telecommunications companies spent $60.3 million on political contributions over six years and a minimum of $83.4 million on lobbying over two years in an attempt to curry favor with elected officials in the states, according to a new Center for Public Integrity analysis. |
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http://www.openairwaves.org/telecom
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| | London, England |
| | Efforts to solve London's problems by building new "garden cities," such as Letchworth in the early 1900s, were popular with reformers but did little to alleviate the situation in the metropolis as a whole. | | | The most spectacular public building of the age was the New Palace of Westminster, the Houses of Parliament, designed by Sir Charles Barry in 1835 and completed in 1860, which ushered in the new Gothic Revival style of the Victorian era, with its use of ornate decoration, spires, and towers. | | | Londinium's rectangular plan was typical of Roman colonial towns, with two main streets intersecting at the large basilica, or public building, about where the Bank of England stands today. |
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http://www.thecityoflondon.com
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| | Montana Land Ownership Maps |
| | Details on public and private trusts and easements | | | All private land maps were replaced on October 19, 2005. | | | Two maps are available for each 100k quadrangle, representing separate looks at land ownership: |
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http://nris.state.mt.us/gis/ownmaps.asp
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| | Who Owns What |
| | In the Age of Public Ownership, the Importance of Being Local Geneva Overholser | | | A selected list of articles in CJR about media ownership: | | | A Hard Look at Public Ownership and Ideas for Damage Control Geneva Overholser |
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