And for some renters, the housing crisis has shaken their desire to become owners.
Today they have been encouraged to become owners: three-fifths of the staff have 8% of the company among them.
The membership subscription is paid annually so new members can join and become owners at any time, adding to the club's finances.
But in the rarest of instances, former players become team owners in the sport in which they played professionally.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have become reluctant owners of more than 200, 000 properties thanks to the foreclosure crisis, working through the backlog, one painstaking foreclosure sale at a time.
"The taxpayers, the government become stockholders and owners of the banks, " Davidson says.
In open-source networks, participants become co-owners with the freedom to create and iterate to add value in new contexts.
Indeed, everyone from casino mogul Donald Trump Donald Trump to Revlon billionaire Ronald Perelman Ronald Perelman could, if he wanted, become the proud owners of the corner of Broad Street and Wall Street in lower Manhattan.
Local entrepreneurs become part-owners of the project.
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Let me get this straight: Once entitlement recipients know they are guaranteed food, shelter, transportation, and other necessities, they suddenly become entrepreneurs, business owners and risk takers.
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He notes, for instances, that 130 million Americans participate in the ownership of co-op businesses and credit unions, and that more than 13 million Americans have become literal worker-owners of more than 11, 000 employee-owned companies.
To be sure, illegally uploaded movies could easily become unavailable if the content owners attack the problem.
These networks have become cash cows for team owners because of the monthly fees cable operators pay on behalf of all of their basic subscribers.
If additional yuan loans were mortgage-based and tied to Chinese real estate development projects Africans could conceivably become first-time home owners in waves, while paying little interest.
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Only for garageless owners does recharging become complicated.
As capital becomes ever more mobile, transfers from its owners to workers do become harder to achieve.
In the high-stakes poker game that the labor negotiations between the NBA owners and players have become, the players have moved all their chips to the middle of the table now.
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The owners of companies have become increasingly concerned about what they see as excessive pay increases for directors, that are not justified by the performance of companies - and there has been a rise in the number of protest votes against remuneration practices at companies' annual meetings.
Herzog does see a trend among pet owners: Rescuing animals has become fashionable.
Owners of bitcoins have also become the target of cyber thieves keen to cash in on the boom in the digital currency.
Like famous Hamptons faces before them publicist Lizzie Grubman or retail entrepreneur Jeff Goldstein they have become recognizable to many locals and business owners.
If the rumors about acquisitions become a reality, will the new owners of Cloudera, MapR, and Hortonworks get along better than the companies do now as independents or worse?
The Small Business Authority brand has been established to provide real-time, state of the art content, and business services to become the destination for small-business owners all across the United States.
There's been talk the last couple days about the fact that there really isn't anywhere in the States to take advantage of the blazing 7.2Mbps downlink connection supported by the iPhone 3G S -- except for one great hope, one diamond in the rough that could become a shining destination for 3G S owners the world over.
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These micro projects have become seeds of success for thousands of project owners.
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Those business owners who don't may become more competitive, because more attractive employees will be able to afford insurance on their own.
Thus, iBooks will become the de facto eBook application for iPad owners.
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If agreement can't be reached, hundreds of thousands of homes could become uninsurable, with dire implications for their owners, and Mr Raab is concerned about brinkmanship in the talks.
Much of the shellfish is bought by canneries and have yet to become menu mainstays, in part, restaurant owners say, because New Jersey's reputation has faded as a provider of fresh shellfish, even in its own region.
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