Today, thanks in part to Shaw, indigenous people can formally lease land off the government.
It is widely recognised that measuring return on capital employed is misleading for asset-light companies such as train operating companies (which primarily lease their rolling stock and, indeed, invest small amounts in tangible assets).
McGee also predicted this technology trend would have serious implications in the image and ageing obsessed world of Hollywood, with it already increasingly common for actors to have their faces and bodies scanned while they are still young to "cryogenically preserve the digital image of their youth in case they are able to sell or lease it in the future".
It also announced the sale of the Register's headquarters in Santa Ana for $27m £16.5mm) to a local developer, which it will lease back.
That will cost them huge sums of money, prompting them to buy or lease their own private, global fibre-optic networks from the telecoms companies.
Except for a new public body which will collect farmland and lease it to firms, policy on agriculture will remain largely unchanged.
A system has evolved under which British fishermen, unlike most of their European counterparts, can now easily buy, sell or lease their quotas.The emergence of a market in fish quotas has had the incidental and beneficial effect of tackling many of the pernicious side-effects of the EU's fish policy.
Mr Knowles is "not very keen" on a sell-off.Their mild dismay might seem insignificant, beside the nationwide rage provoked by the government's proposals to sell or lease large tracts of English woodland managed by the Forestry Commission, a public body.
Cyber-criminals can rent access to Blackhole software by the day or lease a Blackhole server for periods of three months to a year at a time.
Last year, when NATO agreed to establish European-only task-forces, the Americans promised to lease the Europeans the necessary command, control and communications equipment.
But soon after last June's launch of.pro, a firm handling registrations exploited a loophole to "lease" names to otherwise unqualified people.
