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  Lists of corporate assets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Much of the world's assets, particularly in the media industry, are concentrated in the hands of a small number of large corporations.
List of assets owned by Altria Group (previously Philip Morris Companies Inc.)
List of assets owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_who_owns_what   (202 words)

  
 World Almanac for Kids
WASHINGTON, one of the Pacific states of the U.S., bounded on the N by the Canadian province of British Columbia, on the E by Idaho, on the S by Oregon, and on the W by the Pacific Ocean.
Washington, with an area of 184,674 sq km (71,303 sq mi), is the 18th largest state in the U.S.; 29.6% of the land area is owned by the federal government.
Washington’s climate varies greatly from W to E. A mild, humid climate predominates in the W part of the state, and a cooler dry climate prevails E of the Cascade Range.
www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/states/washington.html   (4062 words)

  
 Dow Jones & Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The company was founded in 1882 by three reporters: Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser.
The company is led by the Bancroft family, and is not the subsidiary of a multinational corporation.
Current members of the board of directors of the company are: Christopher Bancroft, Lewis B. Campbell, Michael Elefante, John Engler, Harvey Golub, Leslie Hill, Irvine Hockaday, Peter Kann (Chairman), David Li, Peter McPherson, Frank Newman, James Ottaway, Elizabeth Steele, and William Steere.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dow_Jones_&_Company   (503 words)

  
 The Washington Monthly
Alek, for the same reason released felons aren't allowed to own firearms; their chosen behavior has been deemed so heinous by their fellow citizens that those fellow citizens have decided that such a result is warranted.
In contrast, I've spent non-trivial time in the states of Iowa and Washington, and by empirical observation I have determined that neither are tyrannical, and thus have concluded that disenfranchising felons does not have the same results as disenfranchising those with hideous beliefs.
No, by Madison's and Hamilton's (and more vehemently Jefferson's) own reasoning, the fact that some states have reserved to them some powers not vested in the Federal government by the Constitution doesn't mean that they're free to make laws that contravene the Constitution or infringe on rights that inhere in people, especially not "unalienable" rights.
www.washingtonmonthly.com /archives/individual/2005_03/005798.php   (15004 words)

  
 Bloomberg.com: Financial Glossary
Provision of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that requires that any profit realized by a company insider from the purchase and sale, or sale and purchase, of the company'sequity securities within a period of less than six months must be returned to the company.
Exchanges on which securities, options, and futurescontracts are traded by members for their own accounts and for the accounts of customers.
The maximum number of shares of stock of a company allowed in the articles of incorporation, which may be changed only by a shareholder vote.
www.bloomberg.com /analysis/glossary/bfgloss.htm   (6430 words)

  
 Best of the Blogs
Everybody loves a good conspiracy theory and the revelation that Nebraska Republican Senator Chuck Hagel once ran and is still a major stockholder in the company that owns the company that counted 85 percent of the votes cast in his very own 2002 and 1996 election races is a potential doozy.
Harris owns a PR firm called Talion in Renton, Washington, which is just southeast of Seattle.
She says she began researching voting machine companies when she discovered that unauditable private, proprietary codes are used for vote-counting, and that ownership of voting machine companies is often kept secret.
www.bestoftheblogs.com /2003_02_05_bestof.html   (732 words)

  
 Eschaton
WASHINGTON Sep 24, 2005 — Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., was updated several times about his investments in blind trusts during 2002, the last time two weeks before he publicly denied any knowledge of what was in the accounts, documents show.
At the top of a partial list of the potential cuts being circulated on Tuesday were previously suggested ideas like delaying the start of the new Medicare prescription drug coverage for one year to save $31 billion and eliminating $25 billion in projects from the newly enacted transportation measure.
The list also proposed eliminating the Moon-Mars initiative that NASA announced on Monday, for $44 billion in savings; ending support for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, $4 billion; cutting taxpayer payments for the national political conventions and the presidential election campaign fund, $600 million; and charging federal employees for parking, $1.54 billion.
atrios.blogspot.com /2005_09_18_atrios_archive.html   (5395 words)

  
 CLL Articles - Assessing a Company's Most Valuable Assets: Conducting an Intellectual Property Audit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The various types of intellectual property are important assets, but they are frequently misunderstood by the corporate, tax and finance lawyers, making a properly done intellectual property audit or due diligence crucial in many situations.
the target company and companies related to the target company own, a search should be conducted by owner: include the target company, all previous names of target company, assignors (predecessor in title), as well as by the name of all subsidiaries and related companies.
Particularly in a transaction for only part of the assets of a business (and therefore, only some of the trademarks), an owner search may locate marks which are closely related (the client would think infringing), which needs to be included in the assets transferred, or copyright registrations forgotten by the target company.
www.cll.com /articles/article.cfm?articleid=29   (4888 words)

  
 Focus Grouping the 2008 Dem Field - The Fix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Luntz said that his firm paid for the focus groups on its own but that the genesis of the project grew from a poll he did for a client testing how Democratic primary voters viewed the inheritance tax.
As was the case in 2004 (and in his first election to the Senate in 1998), Edwards's good looks and connectivity with voters are his greatest assets among participants in the Luntz focus groups.
Jimmy Walter has been at the forefront of a world tour to raise awareness about 9/11 and has still yet to receive any response to his million dollar challenge in which he offers a $1 million reward for proof that the trade towers' steel structure was broken apart without explosives.
blog.washingtonpost.com /thefix/ - !http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2006/03/focusing_grouping_the_2008_dem.html   (5757 words)

  
 AEJMC Archives -- November 2004, week 3 (#2)
The Foundation also had its own offices on the University campus, and its bylaws allowed it to sue and be sued.[12] In State Board of Accounts v.
Pointing to the list of abuses of trust involving university foundations, and to the fact that taxpayer dollars often are mingled with private dollars in ways that render a public-private distinction virtually meaningless, they conclude that public disclosure will serve both as a deterrent and as a regulatory force.
The request sought a list of donors, date and amount of the donation, as well as the form of the donation, i.e.
list.msu.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0411c&L=aejmc&F=&S=&P=208   (5516 words)

  
 N.Y. Financier Leads Kennedy Center List (washingtonpost.com)
If the committee recommends him for the post, the full board is scheduled to consider Schwarzman in a special telephone conference tonight, according to a source.
Born during the heyday of corporate raiders and hostile takeovers, the company decided it would "would only invest capital in strictly friendly situations, supporting strong management teams," according to the Web site.
It is currently looking for ways to salvage some value from the assets of Enron for the corporation's creditors.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A35333-2004May18.html   (757 words)

  
 U.S. Freezes Assets of Co. Tied to Cuba - CubaMania Cuba Forums
The action by the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control against the company, Sercuba, means any of the company's assets or property found in the United States are frozen and that Americans are barred from doing business with the company.
The company has a call center in Havana and 16 offices in Cuba as well an office in Italy and one in Spain, the department said.
Companies identified by the United States as being owned or controlled by the Cuban government or Cuban nationals are subject to having their financial assets blocked in this country and barred from doing business with Americans.
www.cubamania.com /cuba/showthread.php?t=7179   (672 words)

  
 Riggs Bank Hid Assets Of Pinochet, Report Says (washingtonpost.com)
Riggs Bank courted business from former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and helped him hide millions of dollars in assets from international prosecutors while he was under house arrest in Britain, according to a report by Senate investigators.
Nowhere on the trust or company documentation does Pinochet's name appear, though he and his family were the ultimate beneficiaries, according to investigators.
In 2000, when the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency asked for a list of clients' accounts controlled by foreign political figures, Pinochet's was not on the list.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A50222-2004Jul14.html   (1362 words)

  
 The Debate
DPW executives are so confident that their company will not be found to pose any security threat that they have actually invited an investigation that CFIUS had previously deemed unnecessary.
If the company was taking the initiative and would submit to further review, the hope was that congressional critics would be quieted and the president would not have to take on a fight with a well-positioned Congress or appear that he was giving in to their demands."
But that was the only mistake in that post, as the rest of it was totally on the money, especially in that it recognizes this port deal scandal is fundamentally about patriotic American values, not xenophobia.
blogs.washingtonpost.com /thedebate/2006/02/portdelayfacts.html   (16943 words)

  
 Fifty-nine Deceits in Fahrenheit 911, Dave Kopel, Independence Institute
For example, the Bush administration suppressed data from its own Department of Health and Human Services which showed that the cost of the new Prescription Drug Benefit would be much larger than the administration claimed.
The list itself bears that out: More than 1,000 voters were matched with felons though they were of different races.
But even if the Saudis owned 7% of the stocks on the New York Stock Exchange, the NYSE does not include all of America's wealth--which includes real estate, businesses which are not traded on the NYSE because they are privately owned, and so on.
www.davekopel.com /Terror/Fiftysix-Deceits-in-Fahrenheit-911.htm   (13105 words)

  
 The Moonies (Unification Church/CARP led by Reverend Sun Myung Moon)
List of business names of companies owned, operated, and/or controlled by the Moon organization or Moon followers.
Company owned by Chaim L. Durst the son of former Unification Church of America President Mose Durst.
This company was incorporated in 1996 and appeared as a wholly owned subsidiary of CARP in IRS Annual reports from at least 1999 to 2001.
www.freedomofmind.com /resourcecenter/groups/m/moonies/front_groups.htm   (10966 words)

  
 Bush book: Chapter -2-
Two-thirds of the company's stock is owned by Friedrich Flick, a leading German steel industrialist, and the remainder is owned by interests in the United States.
Enemy nationals were said to own 49 percent of the common stock and 41.67 percent of the preferred stock of the company.
Bert Walker was still the senior director of the company, which he had founded back in 1926 simultaneously with the creation of the German Steel Trust.
www.tarpley.net /bush2.htm   (7187 words)

  
 Fort Washington Investment Advisors, Inc. Goes Live with Dataware Solutions' PTAconnect ASP for Employee Trading ...
Fort Washington, a registered investment advisor with more than $25.4 billion in assets under management*, selected Dataware Solutions and PTAconnect ASP to streamline its employee compliance processes and simplify its quarterly and annual reporting requirements.
About Fort Washington Investment Advisors, Inc. Fort Washington Investment Advisors, Inc. ("Fort Washington"), a registered investment advisor, provides professional and comprehensive investment management services for institutions, corporations, insurance companies, mutual funds, foundations, associations and high-net-worth individuals.
Founded in 1990, Fort Washington manages more than $25 billion in assets*, offering a broad array of investment styles from equity and fixed income to private equity limited partnerships.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-17-2005/0004170128&EDATE=   (558 words)

  
 The New Yorker: Fact
Perle is also a managing partner in a venture-capital company called Trireme Partners L.P., which was registered in November, 2001, in Delaware.
Trireme’s main business, according to a two-page letter that one of its representatives sent to Khashoggi last November, is to invest in companies dealing in technology, goods, and services that are of value to homeland security and defense.
If you had a story about me setting up a company for homeland security, and I’ve put people on the board with whom I’m doing that business, I’d be had”—a reference to Gerald Hillman, who had almost no senior policy or military experience in government before being offered a post on the policy board.
www.newyorker.com /fact/content/?030317fa_fact   (3435 words)

  
 John Malone's tricky maneuvers. By Daniel Gross
Most publicly held companies are valued on some multiple of the earnings of their operating units.
A Liberty investor today has to make some judgment of the value of the shares Liberty holds in public companies (easy), in private companies (not so easy), and gauge the worth of the businesses it owns outright, and those of which it owned only a piece.
And the magnitude of the total assets (Liberty's market capitalization is about $38 billion) is enough to daunt a buyer who might pay a premium for the whole company.
www.slate.com /id/2094402   (1195 words)

  
 By Jacob Weisberg
"Washington is a town where there's all kinds of allegations.
And the integral part of the—the precious part, so to speak—I guess all land is precious, but the part that the people uniformly would not want to spoil, will not be despoiled.
And the facts are that thousands of small businesses—Hispanically owned or otherwise—pay taxes at the highest marginal rate."—to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce; Washington, D.C., March 19, 2001
www.slate.com /id/76886   (13766 words)

  
 Kaplan, Inc.'s FTC Acquires U.K. Accountancy Training Company - Kaplan, Inc.
Kaplan, Inc.'s FTC Acquires U.K. Accountancy Training Company - Kaplan, Inc.
One of the U.K.'s longest-established financial training companies, FTC prepares over 25,000 students a year for professional exams such as the ACA™, AAT™, ACCA® and CIMA™, as well as tax qualification programs and courses for investment professionals.
Kaplan is a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO).
www.kaplan.com /AboutKaplan/PressReleases/Archive/2003/July_1-tc_atc_0703.htm   (204 words)

  
 The Ultimate Lists of corporate assets Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
The Ultimate Lists of corporate assets Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
List of assets owned by Procter & Gamble (has proposed purchasing The Gillette Company)
List of assets owned by Grinner's Food Systems Limited
www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/Lists_of_corporate_assets   (183 words)

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