Word: abstentionism
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While much can be taken on Nixon's authority as a former President, he offers no footnotes and only cursory citations of sources. One wonders, for instance, just how he can be certain that President Ngo Dinh Diem would have outpolled Ho Chi Minh or any other opponent in a...
Margaret Sanger defined liberation in a different way--as the struggle to have freedom from constant childbeating With a choice between abstention from sex and complete dedication to motherhood, women could never be truly free Sanger, having seen the proliberation of unwanted babies and the horrendous effects of sloppy abortions...
Lasch's case against Promethean technology is surprising in its detail but unconvincing on the whole. He suggests that technology has provided us with so many choices as consumers that choices no longer have consequences or indeed meaning: "the freedom to choose amounts in practice to an abstention from choice...
Last year, in a major report on University policy toward companies that do business in South Africa, the ACSR voted 6-5 with one abstention to recommend that Harvard sell all the stock it holds in companies that do any fraction of their work in South Africa. Failing unilateral divestiture...
The following are excerpts from the report issued earlier this week by the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR). Part II, which recommends that Harvard divest from all companies doing business in South Africa, was supported by six members of the committee and opposed by five, with one abstention. Part...