Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inquiry from the question of screening investments to the University's South Africa policy as a whole. As the Committee spent more time on the issue and examined more evidence, several members who had balked at the rigid use of the Sullivan Principles as the standard of corporate behavior and at the establishment of fixed limits on correspondence with the managements of delinquent companies accepted these positions. General divestiture became a viable topic for debate...
...three respects. It called for the use of the Sullivan Principles as a screen on investments rather than merely as a standard to be applied after purchase. It rejected the notion that standards other than the Sullivan Principles, particularly internal company codes, provided appropriate means for judging corporate behavior in South Africa. And it included fixed time limits on attempts and influencing companies...
...ACSR's recommendations proved to be a bitter disappointment to myself and the other student members on the Committee. The CCSR refused to commit itself to the exclusive use of the Sullivan Principles--or any other fixed or explicit set of principles--as the standard to rate corporate behavior. It acknowledged that indefinitely long dialogue with companies was "not a satisfactory course of action," yet it avoided establishing any definite deadlines on such dialogue. In response to the ACSR's most minimal recommendation--for the use of ethical criteria in investment decisions--the CCSR indicated that it would discuss...
...concerned about serious alcoholism, but ... we need to be more specific about how we address it, because it's difficult to affect behavior purely through programs of intervention," he added...
...struggling model in Paris, I experienced the futility of trying to apply New England rules of good behavior to the wrong environment. All of the by-then ingrained qualities which had made me a teacher's pet in prep school--discipline, organization, punctuality--were spurious currency in a community fueled by spontaneity, in which models wandered into shootings late and relied on after-hours socializing to advance professionally. Rejection as a model cut more deeply than rejection as a student because it was myself--my face, my figure, my smile--being rebuffed, sometimes tactfully, often abruptly, on a daily basis...