Fifty-year-old KPFA has a vast signal, and would most likely prove a lucrative asset on the open market.

Because own- ing a company that is part of a creative and prestigious industry is alluring, and because book publishers often have lucrative hidden assets.

Skilled workers are more likely to enter the mainstream labor market as the possession of human capital makes them lucrative assets to the mainstream economy.

It holds, in part, that since famous names and faces sell commercial products, celebrities have a potentially lucrative asset in a right of publicity.

Temple-lands did not pay teins to maintain the local church and they were therefore a highly prized and lucrative asset.

His most lucrative asset is said to be a large life insurance policy that is not expected to be handled as part of the estate.

"With each film, they're building their library of long-lived, extremely lucrative assets," said Stewart Halpern, an analyst with Furman Selz.

The row dominated last year's elections, amid allegations of "neo-colonialism" and anger that the government no longer controlled a lucrative national asset.

They should be made to return something to the public for having been given this enormously lucrative asset.

But in government and politics, access to power is a tantalizing - and lucrative - asset that can give the few who have it at least the appearance of having an edge over others.