Word: adopts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Require that corporations it holds stock in adopt the so-called Tutu Principles as a prerequisite for continued University investment, and institute a specific time-limit for compliance with those principles...
Under current policy, Harvard will divest from companies operating in South Africa only if they refuse to adopt the Sullivan Principles or simliar policies, if persistent efforts to persuade them to adopt the principles have failed, and if there is no hope for improvement in work-place conditions...
...highly unlikely that the Corporation will adopt a proposal for blanket divestment," said CCSR spokesman Michael Blumenfeld. But, Blumenfeld added, "I expect that their recommendations [on acceptable corporate behavior] will be evaluated carefully," Blumenfeld added...
...ADOPT ADAPT ADEPT" the Japanese corporate motto has always unnerved to Americans have never learned to accepted the utilization on our technological advance by an economic rival as flattery. Japan's ability to take American research developments, make modifications to stuff industrial needs, and surpass or at least match the U.S. in expertise, long ago forced us to resign ourselves to the existence of high tech the existence of high-tech thievery. The crimes in the common opinion, were always committed in some miserable corner of Silicon Valley where only spies and the most devoted scientists dared tread. It follows...
...artificial blood monopoly serves as a reminder to the U.S. that generousity may be rewarded in the hereafter but never will it advance our economic status. "Adopt, adapt, adept," may cause a shrug, but another saying should make us shudder. "Nice guys finish last...