Comcast has said that it intends to retain ownership of the stations that NBC owns, something that the affiliates support because "it's keeping skin in our game," Mr. Lawlor said.
Unless the bankers are very far wrong in their calculations, the little Scotsman is in danger of dying disgraced, for they still believe that he owns something like $200,000,000.
Trump-l'oeil: Instead of trying to persuade the world that he owned something that wasn't his, he was trying to convey the impression that he would part with an onerous asset that, as a practical matter, he would still be stuck with.
The first is that, from the fact that I own something, it does not follow that I do not have an obligation to give it away.
For as Nobelist Ronald Coase showed long ago, it matters less who owns something than that it is owned.
"Finding out that what you own isn't worth much on the open market destroys a family's feeling that they own something special".
It would give me immense pleasure to say that I owned something by Mark Rothko.
Sponsorship can get them there.Third, rights holders have realised that they own something scarce, and are doing their best to make it scarcer still.
Most of us, for instance, are prey to the so-called "endowment effect": the mere fact that you own something leads you to overvalue it.
Daisy, on the other hand, said she thought that Harold Pinter owned something like it, which made it all fine with her.
The concept that people deserve to own something that they have created through their own productive labor has been in existence at least since the Enlightenment; it commonly is attributed to the philosopher John Locke.
