• The Faubourg Treme was one of the first places in the southern United States where free African Americans owned property at a time when slavery still existed.

    BBC: New Orleans outside of the French Quarter

  • Tsarnaev faces one count of using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction, namely an improvised explosive device, against persons and property within the United States resulting in death.

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  • Foreign governments can also leverage their ownership in a way that allows them access to sensitive technology which has the potential to highlight vulnerabilities within the information infrastructure and intellectual property of the United States.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The danger of sovereign wealth funds

  • Hence, the Myers not only caused a loss of property to the United States government, but also passed to the Cubans documents that were clearly considered top secret, and were well beyond the "secret" level, which dealt with Cuba as pertaining to American national security.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Cuban Intelligence Operations in the US

  • In a criminal complaint unsealed in U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, Tsarnaev, 19, was charged with one count of using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction, namely an improvised explosive device, against persons and property within the United States resulting in death.

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  • The shift from GNP to GDP a few years back put the emphasis on production by labor and property located in the United States rather than production by U.S. entities worldwide.

    FORBES: Hurricane Sandy And The Shortcomings Of GDP

  • All that had gone before in his life, keeping himself fit (he was three times Canada's badminton champion), gaining business experience as a property developer in the United States, were matters preparing him for the big thing.

    ECONOMIST: David McTaggart | The

  • Between 2007 and 2009, a solar land rush in California and the desert Southwest resulted in scores of developers putting lease claims on more than a million acres of property controlled by the United States Bureau of Land Management.

    FORBES: Obama Administration to Put Solar and Wind Lands off Limits to Mining

  • In the United States, we have constructed and enforce institutions of private property ownership and contract enforcement.

    FORBES: There is Such a Thing as Redistribution

  • The storm, of course, comes on the heels of Hurricane Sandy, which swept through the Caribbean and up the East Coast of the United States, leaving hundreds dead, and thousands without power or property.

    CNN: More voices needed in climate debate

  • The United States has long accused India of dragging its feet on introducing intellectual property rights, and sought assurances in the last round of trade talks that India would pass laws that would enforce US copyright laws in India.

    BBC: Basmati battle boils on

  • In that war and since, the United States has demonstrated repeatedly and consistently that we covet no other country's property.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Post-War Planning

  • In the civil complaint, Caballero -- who now lives in Florida after receiving political asylum in the United States -- says he was forced to flee his home country, abandoning property and businesses, and he wants those responsible to pay.

    CNN: Son sues rebels over father's slaying in Colombia

  • In his rush to get away to exile in the United States with his wife and children, he left behind a suitcase containing details of property and other assets illegally accumulated in his years in power.

    ECONOMIST: Marcos Perez Jimenez

  • As a place to do business, the United States offers a hardworking, diverse, and educated workforce, strong protection of intellectual property rights, a predictable and transparent legal system, relatively low taxes, highly developed infrastructure, and access to the world's most lucrative consumer market.

    WHITEHOUSE: Executive Order 13577--SelectUSA Initiative

  • What should raise red flags is that none of the findings in the House report have anything to do with specific cyber threats or cyber security, but merely reinforce what we already know about China: that its economy operates under a system of state-sponsored capitalism and that intellectual property theft is a larger problem there than it is in the United States.

    FORBES: Huawei, ZTE and the Slippery Slope of Excusing Protectionism on National Security Grounds

  • In addition to achieving economic growth, Peru has also successfully implemented market friendly policies, and increased property rights while recently ratifying a mutually beneficial Free Trade Agreement with the United States.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Zeroing in on Peru

  • Finally, the affidavit alleges that Kendall Myers engaged in a scheme to defraud the State Department and the United States by means of false pretenses and caused the U.S. government to lose property, specifically money in the form of salary payments.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Cuban Intelligence Operations in the US

  • And the drumming of fingers by the American government over the 500-odd property claims from ex-owners, mostly Nicaraguans, resident in the United States had become a deafening throb, accompanied by warnings that the Americans would suspend aid and block multilateral loans unless things were sorted out.

    ECONOMIST: Nicaragua

  • If there is a war, the world will see that the United States will fulfill its administrative responsibilities, including regarding oil, transparently and honestly, respecting the property and other rights of the Iraqi state and people.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Post-War Planning

  • But Senator Levin argued taxes on the profits should be collected in the United States because they were really generated not by the sales of a device but by the intellectual property created by Apple designers and engineers in California.

    NPR: Apple CEO Defends Tax Practices At Senate Hearing

  • In the United States 69% were homeowners in 2007, with 70% of them carrying some debt on the property, in the form of a mortgage or a home-equity loan.

    FORBES: One Big Difference Between Chinese and American Households: Debt

  • The United States General Accounting Office says that estimate of the costs of 11 September includes the direct destruction of property as well as indirect losses caused by businesses closing.

    BBC: New York seeks tax-free boost

  • The heist of bank deposits in Cyprus and the corporate bailouts in the United States a few years ago are the bitter, logical fruit of ideologies that exalt government power above property rights.

    FORBES: Cyprus 2013, TARP 2008: The Bitter Result Of Excessive Government Power

  • "It's not just income tax laws, it's sales taxes, property taxes, taxes on the internet, taxes on products shipped outside of the United States, taxes on products shipped inside of the United States, " McMillan says.

    FORBES

  • For those persons whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order who might have a constitutional presence in the United States, I find that because of the ability to transfer funds or other assets instantaneously, prior notice to such persons of measures to be taken pursuant to this order would render those measures ineffectual.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • The United States ranks high in economic freedom, yet it recently received only 85 of a possible 100 in the property freedom category.

    FORBES: Are Property Rights Human Rights?

  • Property accounts for a very high share of farming wealth: about 90% in the United States, compared with 20% for households though a farm is at least a productive asset.

    ECONOMIST: American farmland

  • You can't keep on holding down the value of your currency, stealing our intellectual property, counterfeiting our products, selling them around the world -- even into the United States.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • Although this is a race for the United States Senate, his platform focuses on local issues: bringing new businesses to the state and attacking a 1997 property-tax law intended to help finance better public education.

    ECONOMIST: Vermont��s Senate race

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