Word: burma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...government is set up, foreign investment profits only the military government and in no way profits the people of Burma," Freeman said...
Shareholders of PepsiCo, upset by the company's involvement in Burma, drafted a resolution to be voted on at a May shareholder's meeting...
...proposal, submitted by Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers in New York State, requested that "PepsiCo and its subsidiaries shall terminate operation in Burma until political prisoners are released and political power transferred to the democratically-elected government of Burma...
...Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) excluded the proposal as a voting issue from the May shareholders meeting after PepsiCo applied for an exemption on the grounds that its sales in Burma were less than five percent of net earnings and gross sales...
Marco B. Simons'97, a member of the Burma Action Group and chair of the council's Student Affairs Committee, said Harvard should not back a company that directly supports a military regime...