Word: abstaining
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...approach, the P.S.D. was swayed by Scares' offer to include some property-protection guarantees that it advocated and, more important, by a promise to hold "working group discussions" with the party on future legislation. P.S.D. National Assembly members actually defied Leader Sa Carneiro's request that they abstain and voted with Scares, providing him with a healthy margin of victory...
...plurality, but not a majority were opposed to the resolution. Others advocated abstention; and still others (myself among them) advocated a vote in favor of the resolution. In light of this disagreement in the ACSR and in light of their own deliberations, the Harvard Corporation finally decided to abstain on the issue...
While it can be argued that some aspects of American involvement may seem less morally abhorrent than other, many of the actions taken by the Harvard Corporation at shareholders' meetings this spring are less ambiguous. Harvard would do no more than abstain on a shareholder resolution that would have forced Manufacturers' Hanover Trust to stop making loans to the South African government. We're not even talking about loans to corporations in South Africa--we're talking about loans to the Vorster government itself. In another instance, the University would not vote to force the General Electric Corporation--a company...
...Harvard Corporation has refused to accept the ACSR's recommendations, and instead has voted to abstain from the shareholder resolutions...
...corporation subcommittee dealing with shareholder proxies chose to abstain because they felt it was an "economic, not a social issue," George Putnam '49, Harvard treasurer and a member of the subcommittee, said yesterday...