Word: acsr
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...asked that Harvard sell its stock in the company and make a public statement about it; Stanley S. Surrey, Smith Professor of Law and the ACSR's chairman, said the ACSR would try to consider the matter after the proxy season...
...Vietnam war profiteers. This year Clergy and Laity Concerned is sponsoring resolutions calling on G.E. and Exxon to report to their shareholders on their involvement in military projects in Southeast Asia and to establish committees "to provide for an orderly transition from military to civilian-oriented production." The ACSR came out against the G.E. resolution last week, not so much because it likes the company's military contracting, Auerbach said, as because most of the information G.E. hasn't already released is classified anyway...
...shareholder in LEAR SIEGLER (150,000 shares) is sponsoring an antiwar resolution, but the New American Movement is interested in the company anyway. At an open ACSR hearing a few weeks ago, NAM members raised the issue of Lear Siegler's training pilots and supplying equipment to South Vietnam, citing Boston Globe reports of skyrocketing numbers of American civilians in the country as evidence that such corporate involvement not only helped kill people but also risked a recommitment of American troops...
...recent great mining disasters have occurred. Because Conoco filed its resolution late, the Securities Exchange Commission does not force it to include the resolution in management's proxy solicitations, so the Campaign is soliciting on its own. It's unlikely that Harvard will support this resolution, since the ACSR, for example, considers solicitations from non-management groups, if at all, only after its other business--in all probability, after Conoco's annual meeting...
Finally, the ACSR has accepted a request from Richard Wilson, professor of Physics, that it look into the information G.E. and WESTINGHOUSE (200,000 shares) offer the public on the safety of their nuclear reactors. Neither company provides nearly enough information, Wilson said last week. "The University should point this out, since its job is to educate and inform people...