Word: adoptness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While there is evidence that China is beginning to adopt some precepts of capitalism, let us not forget that in the past eight months, during China's "purification campaign," more than 2,000 Chinese Christians have been arrested and three have been executed. Inhumanity continues to be very much the way of life in the People's Republic of China...
...their statements over the last decade that they care about the South African question, and work--through stockholder resolutions and other tactics--to get those companies directly supporting the South African government to pull out from the country, and to push companies which do not directly propagate apartheid to adopt the Sullivan Principles as a bare minimum...
Scattered grass-roots attempts to aid black families also seem hopeful. In Los Angeles, Dr. James Mays, a black physician, has set up an adopt-a-family program: each of 200 enrolled families is being provided with legal, medical and other services by a volunteer group. Washington recently put 40 welfare mothers through an experimental eight-month job-training course; most found employment. Five years ago, South Boston High School started encouraging its student mothers not to drop out; a pediatric nurse spends two days a week at the school dispensing advice on bringing up babies...
Harvard accepted many of the 1978 suggestions. Under current policy, the University will divest from companies that do business in South Africa only if they refuse to adopt and work to fulfill the Sullivan Principles or similar guidelines, if repeated efforts to persuade them to do so have failed and if there is no hope for improvement in work-place conditions for non-whites...
...Committee concluded that if a company decided to continue to do business in South Africa, it should adopt practices and policies aimed at eliminating all aspects of apartheid in the workplace (including unequal pay and the underrepresentation of non-whites in management and supervisory positions) and improving employees' lives outside the workplace in such areas as housing, schooling, and health facilities; establish an adequate minimum wage; and adopt policies permitting non-white employees to engage in collective bargaining. The Committee also concluded that U.S. banks should not make loans to the South African government or its public corporation...