Word: abstains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three weeks ago the Corporation voted to abstain on an ACSR-recommended shareholder resolution requiring the Caterpillar Tractor Corporation to review its South Africa operations...
...freedom to disport has pained his partners. He admits that Sandstone was hard on some who went there. What he does not say is the obvious: given power over others, hedonists can be as tyrannical as censors. The injunction to perform can be as chafing as the commandment to abstain. Talese thinks that the war between men and women could be called off if women would learn to like "recreational sex." He does not add that this fantasy of surrender is a boring substitute for the complex, painful and joyous reality...
...resolutions that were far less critical of Israel than the one under contention. Said tie: "To my own bafflement, these two sets of documents are clearly inconsistent." Later, Church stated: "Why vote for any resolution proposed by Arab countries condemning Israel? It would have been more appropriate to abstain...
...those who do devote themselves entirely to Sikhism must direct both their lifestyles and "consciousness" to the faith. In addition to mediating regularly, Sikhs abstain from tobacco, alcohol, meat, and sex out of marriage. Each wears a kesh, a turban around unshorn hair, as a "crown of spirituality;" a kathera, or special cotton underwear, to "remind" him of his chastity; and a kara, or bangle, to signify commitment to truth and freedom from life's "entanglements." Each Sikh also cariesa kauga, or comb, to symbolize cleanliness, and a small sword called a kirpan to defend neighbors and the family...
Voting on the resolution was scheduled for Friday night. There was no lack of clarity in Vance's postbreakfast instructions to McHenry: the U.S. would abstain unless McHenry got the offensive paragraph removed, and he must later make the oral reservation about the dismantling demand. Vance did not tell McHenry that every reference to Jerusalem...