Word: adopters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Under the terms underlined in the letter Harvard would stop investing in corporations operating in South Africa, support or initiate shareholder resolutions calling for corporate withdrawal, in corporations whose stock they currently hold, publicize the rationale behind its actions, seek support of other shareholders, and if these efforts fail, adopt a policy of "strategic divestiture...
...long-term goal should not be supported. Since the Biko Fund takes from students the financial lever--perhaps the only one left after failed marches, failed petitions, and failed discussion--it should not be supported. Support for such a Fund should come only after the Harvard Corporation has adopted an investment policy which clearly supports the withdrawal from South Africa of all American corporations in which it owns stock. Until that time, I would urge all seniors to totally boycott both the Harvard Gift and Capital fundraising drives, and send letters to the President and Fellows encouraging them to adopt...
...Carter Administration is coming under increasing pressure to adopt the shortsighted position of support for continued white domination in Rhodesia. In a shocking display of cynicism and ignorance about Africa, the Senate recently voted to endorse the "internal settlement" and the so-called "elections" engineered by Prime Minister lan Smith. Massachusetts Senator Paul E. Tsongas, in opposing the Sentate bill to send an observer team to those "elections," compared Senate recognition of the white-dominated regime to the Tonkin Gulf resolution of 1964, which gave Congressional support to the escalation of the Vietnam...
...great sums of money flow from the industry spigot to persuade the public or legislators to adopt an industry solution to a problem, while in contrast, few dollars ever trickle from the consumers' faucet...
Willard R. Johnson, professor of Political Science at MIT, said yesterday that although the corporation decided last year to adopt a policy of shareholder responsibility rather than divestiture of its South Africa-related stocks, "it has not lived up to even that more moderate course...