Microsoft already owns 17% of Nook Media, with around three quarters owned by Barnes and Noble and 5% by Pearson.

BBC: Barnes & Noble shares jump 24% on reports of Nook bid

Then, he added more shares in the next two quarters and owned a total of 18, 372, 247 at March 31, 2012, making the holding 5.2% of his portfolio and his fifth-largest holding.

FORBES: Stocks Trading For Less Than David Einhorn And Prem Watsa Paid For Them

Ian Bremmer and Nouriel Roubini, respectively president of the Eurasia Group and a professor at New York University, pointed out in The Wall Street Journal last week that 39 of the 42 Chinese companies listed among the Fortune 500 are state-owned, and three-quarters of China's 100 largest publicly traded companies are state-controlled.

WSJ: China Might Have Over-Reached Itself

Hadley supposed that his own living quarters, in university-owned housing, were minimal, cramped, somewhere in the row of subsidized apartments along the river.

NEWYORKER: Pumpkin Head

Spinetti was born in the living quarters above the chip shop his family owned in Cwm, Ebbw Vale.

BBC: Victor Spinetti, actor and star of Beatles films, dies

These statistics, provided on a quarterly basis, cover participation in federal contracting by both veteran-owned small businesses and service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses for fiscal year 2001 and the first three quarters of fiscal year 2002.

WHITEHOUSE: Statement of Angela B. Styles

Outside of beaches, city parks and sidewalks, one common boiling over point in the poop wars is planned subdivisions, residential developments, and apartment buildings, where dog owners and non-owners share close quarters, adjacent homes, and often common or commonly owned areas including roadways and landscaping.

FORBES: Is DNA Testing Of Dog Poop Forensic Science Gone Too Far?

Many shares are owned by professional fund managers, who are themselves judged by clients on their performance over the most recent quarters.

ECONOMIST: American profits have been high but the trend may not last