Word: boycotts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parents of schoolchildren over whether youngsters with AIDS should be allowed to attend school if they are physically able to do so. New York City's decision to permit a single unidentified seven-year-old girl with AIDS to enter a second- grade class provoked an angry parental boycott in two Queens school districts, and a lawsuit has been filed seeking a reversal of school-board policy. In a bizarre twist to that case last week, the attorney representing the second- grader announced that there is evidence that the child does not have AIDS after all. The city health department...
Students from a dozen other top law schools around the country--including BU, Cornell, Yale and the universities of Michigan, North Carolina, and Wisconsin--are also participating in the boycott...
...message to the firms is simple: If you work for apartheid, we won't work for you," second-year student Elissa Stein said yesterday. Stein said protesters hope the boycott will "encourage law firms to join the growing national movement to isolate the white minority regime...
Only one of the five firms targeted for the boycott, the 220-lawyer Washington firm Covington & Burling, is among the 700 firms that have planned interview sessions in Cambridge next month...
...line is crossed when a university goes beyond expressing opinions and tries to exert economic pressure by divesting stock or engaging in a boycott in order to press its views on outside organizations...