Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world. It might have galvanized others to act; who knows, it might have been a catalyst that would have brought pressure for peaceful change that now seems impossible. Divestiture now would be as cynical and irrelevant as Ronald Reagan's sanctions. At this point we would do better to bear the shame of our past record silently. Stephen A. Marglin '59 Professor of Economics
Leverett resident Kim Little '87 brought her sleeping bag and teddy bear, Paul Bear Bryant. "If we're going to have a hurricane, we might as well have a good time," Little explained...
...said cities must bear the additional responsibility created by federal policies. "We either do it ourselves or its not going to be done...
...third bar, T.T. The Bear's Place of 10-18 Brookline Street, has also aroused neighborhood protest but is being considered under a separate hearing...
...greater weakness in the strategy of divestment, however, is its assumption that selling stock will somehow force companies to leave. In fact, divestment merely transfers shares from one stockholder to another without bringing any effective economic force to bear on management. Thus, it Harvard had sold its stock at any point in the last 10 years, as we were repeatedly asked to do, apartheid would still remain intact. The only difference would be that the University would have lost the influence we currently possess to try to persuade companies to oppose apartheid and improve the lot of their black employees...