Word: adopted
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...rather than continue its practice of voting on shareholder resolutions and communicating with corporate managements because the present practice has failed to overcome apartheid or to close the gap in wages and working conditions between Black and white workers. This argument misconceives the current policy. The University did not adopt this policy because it felt that its actions-or any action that universities could take-would have a substantial effect on apartheid Harvard decided on this course of action in the conviction that it should vote shares as conscientiously as possible, even if the effects are only limited, and because...
...resources in behalf of a dubious strategy that has no realistic prospect of success. As a result, having thought about the issues as carefully as I would, I continue to believe, as I did in 1978, that the arguments for divestment are not convincing and that Harvard should not adopt such a policy
...A.M.A. does not expect such a plea to be heeded. So the association has come up with 14 proposals that it is urging all states to adopt. Among them: requirements that fighters undergo rigorous physical and neurological examinations and that doctors with complete emergency equipment be present at ringside for all fights. New York State has adopted a program whose regulations correspond closely with those recommended by the A.M.A., and it has already used its new rules to disqualify at least two boxers with degenerative nerve disease. As Ali's experience shows, even the best boxers can take...
...bills while not solving the acid-rain problem. The dilemma is that the pollution knows no boundaries. Indeed, environmentalists say that New York produces less than a third of its own acid rain. Cuomo and his legislature hope their move will inspire other states and the Federal Government to adopt similar laws...
...terms of debate set by political scientists. Why should we, after all? Political science is merely one way of looking at the world. If Schell wanted to write a book purely to win the faculty of the Kennedy School to his side, then I suppose his failure to adopt their "rules" would be a rhetorical weakness. But it's clear Schell hoped to shift the ground of argument entirely to an ethical and moral plane, from which the "political science rules" which Hirschorn appears to hold sacrosanct appear unnatural, if not murderous. The structure of his book was to "simply...