After ten years tenants will have an option to buy.Options for taking land holdings off banks' balance-sheets are unattractive.
And where the Bells have sought scale advantages by merging with each other, their European counterparts have remained largely national in scope, taking minority holdings abroad, but rarely control.
Taking grudge-holding to new depths, Updyke/Al claimed on the call to have infected the landmark trees with a deadly dose of the herbicide Spike 80DF in retribution for Auburn devotees' supposed toilet-papering of the oak trees in celebration of Bryant's death 28 years ago.
Others have taken their holdings home, hiding money in safety deposit boxes or under mattresses.
With interest rates climbing and demand for stock offerings reviving, some buyout firms will try to take their holdings public in the coming weeks, Mr. Jones of Morgan Stanley said.
Some of these coloni, as the dependent peasants were called, may have taken up holdings granted them by a proprietor, or they may have surrendered their own lands to him in return for such protection.
The publication of the letter was nonetheless significant because it underscored the unrelenting campaign by the Russian president to take large holdings away from the oligarchs who took them over under preferential conditions during the last decade, and wielded them on the Kremlin's behalf, but now have taken a more critical line toward Mr. Putin and his policies.
Take Sabre Holdings' Travelocity, which was founded in 1996.
Many have already picked up stakes in India's top e-commerce firms — Walmart has long been keen on India, eBay was an early Snapdeal investor, Alibaba has stakes in Snapdeal and Paytm, while Amazon has its own India-based entity — but now they can take majority holdings.
In a bad economy, with few other jobs available and retirement holdings taking a hit, fired workers are also more willing to sue.
