Word: adopters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard must adopt a more watchful attitude toward its investments if it truly is dedicated to the ideals of corporate responsibility. Presently, the Harvard portfolio is stocked with corporations which contribute to oppression, imperialism and death all over the globe while answering to virtually no one. If President Bok's rationale for setting up the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility was anything more than a measure to mollify student concern, Harvard must institute a policy questioning what practices its investments support, and pressuring its interests into a more responsive role...
...sugar, which had been introduced into the New World at about 1650. As a result of Europe's rapidly growing demand for sugar and later cotton, the plantation as an economic unit achieved prominence. The new plantation economy brought Africa into the foreground because plantation owners were quick to adopt forced labor for their main work-force. Slavery became one of the basic economic institutions of a large part of world production, and transatlantic slave trade became a booming business for English, New England and French merchants...
...Springfield, from what we've seen, is not as strong as Connecticut," coach Tom "Satch" Sanders said yesterday, but added he would adopt a "wait and see" attitude towards the game...
...wondered what it would have been like to live in the 1850s. That was a time when people were much more in control of their lives. Our society has suffered from mental and physical atrophy. This crisis could really be a good thing." Other Americans would do well to adopt that spirit of adventure. It may be all that they have to get them through a literally dark Christmas and what could be a long, hard winter...
...professor, he has an emotional commitment to black students, forcing him to act as a paternal adviser whenever he disagrees with the methods employed by black youth. Presently, Kilson and black students are involved in a debate over the issue of black solidarity. Black students have the option to adopt the predominate culture of the Harvard community or to preserve the Afro-American culture which they brought with them to Harvard. Kilson advocates acculturation, substituting Ivy League culture for the culture of Afro-America. His argument is influenced by the success and status which he and numerous other blacks...