Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large majority of blacks in South Africa calling for corporate withdrawal. However, you do make the argument that there may be cases in which U.S. corporate presence does more to end apartheid than withdrawal would. Personally we do not agree with your argument, yet we are willing to accept that you are sincere in making...
...might accept that, if it could even reasonably be shown to be true; but the arguments to the contrary are just too immense. When the black leaders of South Africa themselves call for corporate withdrawal, I think it is fair to say that we should respect their perceptions. When the United Nations General Assembly, the World Council of Churches, the NAACP, the Pan-Africanist Congress, the National Congress of South Africa, the Black Consciousness movement, the Congressional Black Caucus, the AFL-CIO and so many, many others say "withdraw," then I wonder: upon what do we base our supposedly "moral...
...perfect, the system of rule that best balanced the claim of the citizen to be free and happy and the need for the state to maintain order. Essentially, democracy depends not on law and the law-enforcing arm of the state but on the willingness of citizens to accept an unwritten contract, a contract between the rational and the atavistic in themselves. When democratic order has to depend on police repression of the antisocial aggressive, then democracy itself is impaired. The more draconian become the measures whereby kidnapers and skyjackers are kept down, the more the democratic world itself...
...sure that Charley ever really decided to get out," Kuhn said. "He'd be so enthusiastic and then, just when you thought you had a solution, you couldn't find him .... Finley is a guy who rejects the new world in baseball. If he would accept it, he is capable of doing well. He has the brains, and the energy and the money, if he wanted...
...country shows that companies are usually unwilling to offer even small wage increases when labor has no effective bargaining power, as is the case in South Africa today. Even if corporations have developed a little more consideration for morality since the era of the Robber Baron, would they willingly accept the burden of huge wage increases while their competitors still benefit from nearslave labor? If the Harvard corporation is not ready to assume financial losses for the sake of ethical considerations, how can we realistically expect other corporations with more at stake...