They have remained largely exempt from America's 50-year ban on banks being owned by commercial companies.
That's a rare example of a country domain being owned by someone from that country.
However, in recent years, a number of bowl games have shifted to being owned and operated by for-profit corporations.
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Most important, of course, allowing the non-paying resident to occupy the house indefinitely prevents it from being owned by someone else who will pay.
Seven of the 20 biggest asset-gatherers of 2011 were from Vanguard Group, a company that is unusual in being owned by its funds and thus, indirectly, by fund shareholders.
In defense of his movie, Jason Russell said on CNN that he thinks of "Kony2012" as being owned by children because "the youth of the world" has funded it.
After Mr Halek had begun to liquidate the fund, a hunk of Kotva shares ended up being owned by another of Mr Halek's firms, which then sold them on to a company registered in Cyprus.
In 2010, the Obama administration froze the assets of the IKRC's affiliate in Lebanon for "being owned or controlled by Hezbollah and for providing financial and material support to Hezbollah and its director, " according to a statement released at the time.
After having success with DC comic book characters (a result of being owned by Warner Bros.), TT Games has partnered with its archrival, Marvel Entertainment, to give more than 100 superheroes such as Spider-Man, Hulk, Iron Man, Thor, Wolverine and Captain America the brick treatment.
And the relative advantage of being privately owned has no doubt risen at least somewhat in the past few years.
Of these, roughly 80% are operated by franchisees, with the balance being company-owned.
Apparently, something about them being foreign-owned stimulated them to be more agile and creative, which resulted in more product introductions.
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My high school, being a wholly owned subsidiary of the Phys Ed department, was run by a head coach who delivered a steady stream of county championships, making his staff untouchable.
SERUM, being a privately owned company, committed financially and technically to the challenge at-hand of producing a new vaccine of the highest quality and at low cost affordable to African ministers of health.
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Bulova is solidly profitable but, while enjoying the security of being 97%-owned by Loews Corp.
"Bombardier, being a family-owned company, has always thought about the long term, " he says.
The school is being built on land owned by the town council and will also include an outdoor gym.
McEvoy knows all about taking part in sporting showdowns Down Under, having won the Melbourne Cup in 2000 on Brew, and once being aboard a winner owned by Australia's cricket captain Ricky Ponting.
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The first predator he met was the Zambian government: the estates had not been paying their bills for two years, but the electricity and telephone companies, being fellow state-owned organisations, had not taken any action.
The Hong Kong and Singapore stock exchanges, two of Asia's most watched bourses, are among a handful around the world that are publicly listed companies (and listed on themselves)--a situation that arose in Asia over the last four years as the exchanges converted or "demutualized" from being nonprofit broker-owned organizations.
And their approach of being widely spread and tightly owned has lots of puff left.
These were sleeker versions of the clunky ones being manufactured by state-owned monopolies back home.
Sam won the vote but largely due to most being disgusted that Brett actually owned a hairdryer.
And now these state-owned buildings are being sold and rented to those who want in on the fun.
He next wants to purge the names of four mixed-race New Orleanians who owned slaves despite being part-black themselves.
This unheralded part of ObamaCare, which prevents any new physician-owned hospitals from being built, institutionalizes that set-up regardless of patient or physician preferences.
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Of the north-east's GDP, two-thirds was being produced by state-owned firms, many of which were loss-making, says Cui Wantian of Liaoning University (he thinks they now contribute less than 50%, compared with about 30% nationally).
Silvio Berlusconi made that abruptly clear yesterday while being interviewed on his state-owned RAI television network.
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According to IDC, half of the iPads used at work are being brought in as individually-owned devices.
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One way to think about is the new software business is 17 percent bigger thanks to the pre-owned games that are being traded.
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