his hospital and doctor bills had been large and his income had been cut until he was receiving little except small rentals on some properties he still owned.

There is a humorous but revealing story about a rancher who owned a large slice of Texas and who wanted to have on it everything that was necessary for a completely pleasant community.

The job at Funk wasn't particularly better, but it got him away from being subordinate to John and assured him steady advancement, since Funk was owned to a large degree by various branches of Linda's family.

By 1889, the U. S. output of steel exceeded that of the UK, and Carnegie owned a large part of it.

Some protesters destroyed the windows of storefronts of businesses owned or franchised by targeted corporations such as a large Nike shop and many Starbucks windows.

The state owned newspapers have large circulations running into hundreds of thousands.

Starting in the 1980s, many countries with large state-owned corporations moved toward privatization, the selling of publicly owned services and enterprises to corporations.

Other large producers are the privately owned Vicini, with three mills, and Central Romana Corporation, whose mill is the largest in the country.

* Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and her husband own and have owned a large array of dachshunds, both smooth and wirehaired.

At the age of nine, he and his older brother Peter were sent to a large and one of the best Latin schools in the Netherlands, located at Deventer and owned by the chapter clergy of the Lebuïnuskerk ( St. Lebuin's Church ), though some earlier biographies assert it was a school run by the Brethren of the Common Life.

52 % of all land was owned by large landowners before the law was passed ; this declined to 16 % after the law's passage.

One night in September 1939 they took him to a large house owned by " Old Dorothy " Clutterbuck, a wealthy local woman, where he was made to strip naked and taken through an initiation ceremony.

The two large banana companies have also owned large cattle ranches where they raised prime beef, but these large companies had the flexibility to change crops as the market demanded.

During World War I, the United States Navy acquired large numbers of privately owned and commercial ships and craft for use as patrol vessels, mine warfare vessels, and various types of naval auxiliary ships, some of them with identical names.

They acquired large tracts of land, both in Europe and the Middle East ; they bought and managed farms and vineyards ; they built churches and castles ; they were involved in manufacturing, import and export ; they had their own fleet of ships ; and at one point they even owned the entire island of Cyprus.

Public transit is provided by the suburban services of the Luanda Railway, by the public company TCUL, and by a large fleet of privately owned collective taxis as white-blue painted minibuses called Candongueiro.

According to Stephen Kinzer's 2006 book Overthrow, in 1898 the chief of the French Canal Syndicate ( a group that owned large swathes of land across Panama ), Philippe Bunau Varilla, hired William Nelson Cromwell to lobby the U. S. Congress for the Panama Canal.

Because Chinese viewers often gathered in large groups to watch publicly owned sets, authorities estimated that two-thirds of the nation had access to television.

Many Paraguayans grew crops and worked as wage laborers on latifundios ( large landholdings ) typically owned by foreigners.

Virtually every subsector of Paraguay's manufacturing was characterized by numerous small-to medium-sized firms and a few large firms, which often were foreign owned.

Desmond reportedly owned a Baldwin grand piano, which he loaned to Bradley Cunningham, owner of the famous Bradley's piano bar in Greenwich Village, with the condition that Mr. Cunningham had to move the large piano back to Desmond's Upper West Side apartment to become part of Desmond's estate.

Further wrangles effectively brought work on the north side of Leipziger Platz to a complete stop for several years ; even now there are some " fake facades " where completed new buildings should be, while a long-running dispute over who owned the Wertheim department store site ( or had claims to the revenue from its sale by the government ), has to this day left another large gap in the central Berlin cityscape that is only now finally being redeveloped.

The large tracts of deer field, guaranteed by the Qing, were owned by the tribes and their individual members.

The Oregon Iron and Steel Company adapted to the new century by undertaking programs in land development, selling large tracts of the it owned, and power, building a plant on Oswego Creek starting in 1905, and erecting power poles in subsequent years to supply power to Oswego citizens.

It was during this period that the State confiscated and sold off vast tracts of Basilicata's territory formerly owned by the Church.

In 1887 the San Marcos Land Company bought almost all of the San Marcos land formerly owned by the Couts family and promptly divided the land into tracts.

The Boone family, prominent in the settlement of southern Harrison County, owned large tracts of land throughout the township which bears their name.

In the middle of the nineteenth century, the city became the home of a collection of extremely wealthy Southern planters, who owned vast tracts of land in the surrounding lowlands of Mississippi and Louisiana where they grew large crops of cotton and sugar cane using slave labor.

During the middle of the 19th century, Morse owned vast tracts of land in the Ridgefield section of the borough.

At that time vast tracts of land were owned by a few individuals and farmed by tenants.

Since the town is entirely within the Catskill Park, large tracts of land are owned by the state Department of Environmental Conservation as part of New York's Forest Preserve.

He purchased several tracts of land beginning in 1773, including the parcel owned by Samuel Boone, near the mouth of Mosquito Run.

The name Hanover was suggested by Michael Tanner, who was one of the commissioners who laid out York County in 1749 and owned large tracts of land southeast of the town.

Small claims owned and mined by individuals may need to be merged into larger tracts.

Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford, who owned large tracts of land in the vicinity, agreed to carry out drainage works in 1630, in return for of the land which would be reclaimed.

Most early purchases were large, isolated tracts owned by lumber and coal companies with but few inhabitants.

The United Fruit Company ( UFCO ) owned vast tracts of land in the Caribbean lowlands.

The railroad companies, who owned vast tracts of lands () granted in return for building the lines, did not agree with his opinion.

The town of Randolph sits on the vast tracts of land which were originally owned by the Holland Land Company.

These were sent in 1795 by the Holland Land Company, which then owned large tracts in New York, to their agent, Mr. John Lincklaen of Cazenovia.

Development of new hotels depended on securing licenses from the government, " as the state still owned large tracts of land in both urban and rural areas.

Dudley at his death owned large tracts of land in Massachusetts, principally in Roxbury and what is now Worcester County.

His remains are today interred in a corner of the town green, known as the Mall, previously the cricket grounds of Lord Lucan, whose family ( the Binghams ) have owned and still own large tracts of the town and county.

Morris wanted to send military forces to the frontier, but the Assembly, whose leadership included Benjamin Franklin, refused to grant the funds unless Morris agreed to the taxation of the proprietary lands, the vast tracts still owned by the Penn family and others.

Most of the 90 acres ( 364, 000 m² ) he owned were used for agricultural purposes, and he was slowly selling tracts of land for profit.