Word: abstentionism
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Thanks to Steiner's abstention, and that of another as yet unidentified C.D.U.
In fact, the narrow definition of the ACSR's role and President Bok's reluctance to meet with concerned students on investment issues after the ACSR's inception confirm original student suspicions: The committee was intended chiefly as a means of defusing protest without effectively bringing outside input to bear...
This doesn't mean that the subcommittee feels free to disregard the ACSR entirely. The most it has done this Spring is to move one notch from the ACSR's recommendations--abstaining on some resolutions the ACSR endorsed, and opposing some resolutions the ACSR urged abstention on. Bennett, who flatly...
Third, in recommending an abstention on the shareholder resolution, the ACSR exerted the least possible pressure on the Harvard Corporation to address the political questions raised by colonial rule in Angola. By recommending that the Corporation send advisory letters to the churches and to Exxon management, the ACSR exaggerated the...
The Advisory Committe on Shareholder Responsibility wound up its inaugural season this week with a call for abstention on the issue that brought it into existence--Harvard investment in the Portuguese colony of Angola.