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  • "They purchase the loyalty of their executives and their directors," Mr. Armstrong, a former president of a land-holding company, said in an interview.

    Chesapeake CEO Faces Storm Daniel Gilbert 2011

  • "They purchase the loyalty of their executives and their directors," Mr. Armstrong, a former president of a land-holding company, said in an interview.

    Chesapeake CEO Faces Storm Daniel Gilbert 2011

  • I now own several companies: touring, publishing, and even a land-holding company, all named after my very groovy dog Ronnie.

    Late, Late at Night Rick Springfield 2010

  • I now own several companies: touring, publishing, and even a land-holding company, all named after my very groovy dog Ronnie.

    Late, Late at Night Rick Springfield 2010

  • I now own several companies: touring, publishing, and even a land-holding company, all named after my very groovy dog Ronnie.

    Late, Late at Night Rick Springfield 2010

  • Their relationships were vertical rather than horizontal, due to their dependence upon wealthy land-holding patrons who doled out favors to the subservient.

    Philip Slater: Why Individualists Are More Vulnerable to Dictatorship 2009

  • It's a bit of an oversimplification, but Virginia and South Carolina were settled by a distinctly more blue-blooded, land-holding class.

    Poll Suggests Obama Is Putting North Carolina In Play 2009

  • In all parts of Lesotho farmers are anxious to expand irrigation schemes, provided the schemes complement existing farming practice including land-holding, crop-selection and marketing and the control over decisions remains with the farmers.

    Water profile of Lesotho 2008

  • It is the latest land-holding venture to run into trouble amid the housing-market crunch.

    Big Land Venture 2008

  • Indeed, I confess, I strongly incline to the belief that the black man of the South will eventually become the large land-holding class, and, therefore, the future tyrants of labor in that section.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

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