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...battered women who hadn't taken that fatal step. Women who resorted to violence were usually those who were most isolated, socially and economically; they had been the most badly beaten, their children had been abused, and their husbands were drug or alcohol abusers. That is, the common bond was circumstantial, not psychological. "They're not pathological," says social psychologist Blackman. "They don't have personality disorders. They're just beat up worse...
Rather than divesting itself of its bond holdings, the committee planned to address Hydro-Quebec's environmental policies through its influence as a shareholder in Consolidated Edison, a New York utility company using Hydro-Quebec electricity, according to committee members...
Goldston Professor of Law William D. Andrews,chair of the shareholder responsibility committee,said that after Consolidated Edison withdrew fromthe second phase, the Corporation's bond holdingsin Hydro-Quebec dwindled...
Andrews said he thought the Corporation hadsold all its bonds by the end of the summer. TheHarvard Management Company would not release afigure for the total bond investment inHydro-Quebec...
Dartmouth College, however, divested itself ofall its Hydro-Quebec bond holdings, nearly tenpercent of its total endowment, after a petitionof more than 2,300 signatures urged Dartmouth'sBoard of Trustees to consider ending the college'sownership of project bonds...