Word: propertyless
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...propertyless Harvard social scene need not hang its unhappy head and cry just yet. Something unheard of is happening. For a long time students pleaded. But now, for the first time, administrators with the deep pockets that can make change happen are paying more attention, or at least paying students lip service like never before. And new land in Allston means Harvard could actually find room for a new student center...
...fallacy that can survive only among the fanatical and the ignorant. The moral and intellectual conviction that inspired Toussaint-Louverture to focus the rage of the Haitian slaves and lead them to freedom in 1791 came from his reading of Rousseau and Mirabeau. When thousands of voteless, propertyless workers the length and breadth of England met in their reading groups in the 1820s to discuss republican ideas and discover the significance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, they were seeking to unite themselves by taking back the meanings of a dominant culture from custodians who didn't live up to them...
...stand for land reform. In return for your vote, we Nationalist Republicans promise to work for the people." The crowd cheered, and for good reasons. Just after his speech, D'Aubuisson presented the agricultural workers with formal title to the lands they had farmed for years as propertyless tenants...
...there is another, and more significant flaw in Ardrey's thesis. It must be clear to any careful observer that we are, in the words of Piel, editor of the Scientific American approaching a "propertyless" society. "The ownership of property," observed Piel, "is no longer the primary source of power, even economic power in our society. . . ." He goes on to note how modern consumers mortgage their homes, buy their cars on time and rent a good deal of what they need. He concludes that "the typical consumer owns no property in the classical meaning of the term...
...Labor no longer is a disinherited, propertyless minority, but comprises the majority of Americans. Labor and management now bargain from relatively equal strength; government intervention only prevents or delays bona fide bargaining and settlement...