Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once Harvard uses its $2.6 billion endowment to modify corporate behavior, Bok fears, it leaves itself open to similar pressure from organizations that support, research here at the University. Companies could make grants conditional on Harvard's stance on a particular issue. Before long, this would erode the long cherished academic freedom and pollute an environment of free thought and experimentation so necessary for a university...
...letter centers upon the distinction between appropriate and inappropriate methods of influencing the behavior of corporations and, ultimately, the Nationalist government itself. Fully aware of the evils of apartheid, the University has undertaken a number of steps regarding its investments: voting on shareholder resolutions for corporate withdrawal, urging firms to abide by the Sullivan Principles (progressive rules of conduct for American firms operating in South Africa), and engaging "in intensive dialogue with corporations to persuade them to improve the quality of life outside the workplace." All of these, according to Bok, are appropriate actions by the University, fully consistent with...
...survey found that women tend to suffer from phobias and depression, while men score significantly higher than women in the abuse of alcohol or dependence on drugs and in long-term antisocial behavior. When all disorders are taken into account, men and women are about equally troubled. Earlier surveys showed that women were more psychiatrically disabled and had more symptoms than men, possibly because women tend to seek help for depression and men tend to hide theirs with alcohol. The current survey found that women seek professional help twice as frequently...
...hope some people at Harvard and other colleges have higher standards of behavior. If you fail to take effective and available action to end a wrong--you are supporting...
Assuming good behavior-and so far he has been a model prisoner-Moon could be out on parole by February. But the sentiment of Dr. Lahaye, that Moon's confinement, "indicates that the religious community will remain on the alert for further transgressions against religious liberty: real-or imagined...