In the fall of 1993, Jerry Colangelo, majority owner of the Phoenix Suns, the area's NBA franchise, announced he was assembling an ownership group, " Arizona Baseball, Inc .," to apply for a Major League Baseball expansion team.

In a turn of events that proved to be a minor embarrassment for the reorganized ownership group, Backman was almost immediately fired after management learned, after the fact, of legal troubles and improprieties in Backman's past.

Of great surprise to many fans was a brand new color scheme ; apparently the original colors used by the franchise since Major League Baseball awarded it to Jerry Colangelo's ownership group in 1995 were to be discontinued.

They agree with communists that the means of production should be expropriated from private owners and converted to common property, but they advocate the ownership of this property to be vested by a loose group of decentralized communes rather than to be held in common by all of society.

In 1967 an ownership group led by Paul Brown was granted a franchise in the American Football League.

However, in 1991, as part of Major League Baseball's two-team expansion ( they also added the former Florida ( now Miami ) Marlins ), an ownership group representing Denver led by John Antonucci and Michael I. Monus were granted a franchise ; they took the name “ Rockies ” due to Denver's proximity to the Rocky Mountains, which is reflected in their logo.

Also, an advisory committee was formed in 1990 by then-Governor of Colorado Roy Romer to recruit an ownership group.

Finally, trucking-company executive Jerry McMorris became head of the ownership group and served as the initial public face of management.

According to Josephus, they had customs and observances such as: collective ownership, electing a leader to attend to the interests of the group, obedience to the orders from their leader.

In 2005, the Red Sox ownership group announced that the team would stay at Fenway Park indefinitely.

Crane was given a $ 70 million concession by MLB for agreeing to the switch ; the move was a condition for the sale to the new ownership group.

In 1989, the prospective ownership group Touchdown Jacksonville!

Additionally, its stadium, the Gator Bowl, was outdated, and the ownership group struggled to negotiate a lease with the city.

As such, in July 1993, the ownership group withdrew from the bidding.

It had a very strong regional football culture, evidenced by the high level of support for the Florida State University Seminoles and University of Florida Gators college football teams, as well as a solid ownership group and a location in the growing and attractive Southeast region.

Following a 2006 season in which they missed the playoffs, Lamar Hunt sold the club in August 2006 to OnGoal, LLC, a six-man ownership group led by Cerner Corporation co-founders Neal Patterson and Cliff Illig, a local group committed to keeping the Wizards in Kansas City.

Five months later in January 1960, after significant pressure from the NFL, the ownership group, along with Bernie Ridder, reneged on its agreement with the AFL and then was awarded the National Football League's 14th franchise with play to begin in 1961.

On January 16, 2004, Selig announced that his ownership group was putting the team up for sale, to the great relief of many fans who were unhappy with the team's lackluster performance and poor management by his daughter, Wendy Selig-Prieb, over the previous decade.

Other members of Attanasio's ownership group include private equity investor John Canning Jr., David Uihlein, Harris Turer and Stephen Marcus, all of whom were involved with the previous ownership group led by Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig.

There were recently 12 4 % shares to the team sold by the majority ownership group to provide a cash infusion for the team.

Meanwhile, manager Tony La Russa began his first season with the Cardinals in tandem with a new ownership group.

Originally known as Buckingham House, the building which forms the core of today's palace was a large townhouse built for the Duke of Buckingham in 1705 on a site which had been in private ownership for at least 150 years.

The estate was first known as Bletchley Park during the ownership of Samuel Lipscomb Seckham, who purchased it in 1877.

In a joint-stock company the members are known as shareholders and their share in the ownership, control and profits of the corporation is determined by the portion of shares in the company that they own.

In Hong Kong, Tsang Tsou Choi was known as the King of Kowloon for his calligraphy graffiti over many years, in which he claimed ownership of the area.

Marx's theories about society, economics and politics — collectively known as Marxism — hold that all societies progress through the dialectic of class struggle: a conflict between an ownership class which controls production and a lower class which produces the labour for goods.

Anarchist communism ( also known as anarcho-communism and occasionally as free communism or libertarian communism ) is a theory of anarchism which advocates the abolition of the state, capitalism and private property ( while retaining respect for personal property ), and in favor of common ownership of the means of production, direct democracy and a horizontal network of voluntary associations and workers ' councils with production and consumption based on the guiding principle: " from each according to his ability, to each according to his need ".

Collectivist anarchism ( also known as anarcho-collectivism ) is a revolutionary doctrine that advocates the abolition of the state and private ownership of the means of production.

Anarchist communism ( also known as anarcho-communism and occasionally as free communism ) is a theory of anarchism which advocates the abolition of the state, markets, money, capitalism and private property ( while retaining respect for personal property ), in favor of common ownership of the means of production, direct democracy and a horizontal network of voluntary associations and workers ' councils with production and consumption based on the guiding principle: " from each according to his ability, to each according to his need ".

It was the difficulty in using the longbow which led various monarchs of England to issue instructions encouraging their ownership and practice, including the Assize of Arms of 1252 and King Edward III's declaration of 1363: " Whereas the people of our realm, rich and poor alike, were accustomed formerly in their games to practise archery – whence by God's help, it is well known that high honour and profit came to our realm, and no small advantage to ourselves in our warlike enterprises ... that every man in the same country, if he be able-bodied, shall, upon holidays, make use, in his games, of bows and arrows ... and so learn and practise archery.

The increased risk averaged over all homes containing guns was similar in size to that correlated with an individual with a criminal record living in the home, but substantially less than that associated with demographic factors known to be risks for violence, such as renting a home versus ownership, or living alone versus with others.

More sophisticated forecasting can include other aspects of traveler decisions, including auto ownership, trip chaining ( the decision to link individual trips together in a tour ) and the choice of residential or business location ( known as land use forecasting ).

The advantage of this technology is that it has the lowest known cost of ownership: ink is transferred by conventional typewriter-style ribbons, and the rest of the printer simply never wears out.

After falling under the ownership of the Hope family, and remaining in its possession for more than half a century, it came to be known officially as the " Hope Diamond ".

Bolckow had purchased this manuscript at an earlier auction, in 1868, but had not made his ownership widely known, and consequently it was assumed for many years that no such holograph existed.

After the season, the Aces were sold to an ownership group led by future Winnipeg, Manitoba mayor Sam Katz and the team relocated to the city and became known as the Winnipeg Goldeyes, taking the name of the Winnipeg team that played in the original Northern League.

The best known financial scandal of the second half of 1990s happened when ownership of the Krasnoyarsk Aluminum Plant by a known Krasnoyarsk businessman Anatoliy Bykov had been canceled after he was accused of murdering his partner, Vilor Struganov.

The Lancastrian inheritance, known as the Duchy of Lancaster, has remained in English and then British Royal ownership, with monarchs bearing the title Duke of Lancaster.

Infogrames ( now itself known as Atari SA ) still maintains ownership of the original Atari properties received through Hasbro which are kept in their Hasbro Interactive originated placeholder, Atari Interactive, Inc.

HKN, Inc., formerly known as Harken Energy Corporation, is a small American oil and gas production company, with ownership interests in other production companies.

It has long been known as a " cowboy town " and " rodeo town ," due to the rural setting, the large percentage of ranches and the abundant horse ownership in the area.

By 1910 the population was 603, and Louisburg was known as a good supply town for agricultural districts .. w By the 1920s, the town also had a gas station, as automobile ownership and traffic through town had increased.

The town was formerly known as Malta, and gave its name to the " Malta War ", a minor rebellion against the Massachusetts state government in Boston over settlement and land ownership rights in the first decade of the 19th century.

After the mill came into the ownership of Oliver A. Hyde, the place became known as " Hyde's Mills ".

In the long conflict ( known as the " Borculo question ") between the heirs of the last count of Limburg-Bronkhorst, Joost ( deceased in 1553 without children ), and the Prince-Bishop of Munster over ownership of Borculo, the Court of Gelderland ruled on 20 December 1615 in favour of count Joost van Limburg and Bronkhorst.