But is he a proprietor in a Lord Boot sense, or merely an observer of the passing scene, handing out £2.4m a year to Paul Dacre Alexanderr and Evgeny Lebedev deserve plaudits for surviving another Independent year, and for promoting two very young talents, Amol Rajan and Ollie Duff, to lead the Indy and the i.
It contains a 1929 "out-of-series" first edition of "Ulysses" (one of ten copies printed on Holland paper) that is in perfect condition - having survived the German Occupation of Paris in the possession of Adrienne Monnier, the proprietor of La Maison des Amis des Livres, a celebrated Joyce hangout.
According to Miguel Henrique Otero, the proprietor of El Nacional, his newspaper is one of only a handful of independent ones that survive.
He survived poor results, including a home defeat in the Carling Cup by League Two Northampton, and took only 25 points from 20 matches before new proprietors, in the form of John W Henry's Boston-based Fenway Sports Group, bought control last October.
The arrival of plutocratic proprietors such as Roman Abramovich, a Russian billionaire who has pumped over £400m of his own money into Chelsea, also skews the economics of the game by pushing up the price of players.Risking their assetsFew other industries would survive unchanged if even the top performers struggled to make decent returns.
Actually, you have — the proprietors live there.
The Indian-born Mr. Merchant and the American-born Mr. Ivory have been together for four decades, living and making movies in New York, India and France as well as in England; their French productions include "Quartet" (1981), "Jefferson in Paris" (1995), "Surviving Picasso" (1996), "A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries" (1998) and a movie Mr. Merchant directed in 1996, "The Proprietor".
Its proprietors were the Congreves.
He pictured the proprietors so….
Proprietors call the tune.
