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...divestment alumni, prominent businessmen and educators themselves, represent a movement to establish a tradition of dissent. They will help to open the board to public eye, and play a role in revitalizing and broadening its powers to include regular review of financial policies. This year's election should not repeat past popularity contests but instead begin the mammoth task of democratizing and scrutinizing the administration of Harvard...
...become one of the hot spots on the international business scene. Just one year after Spain won full-fledged membership in the European Community, the country's economic growth is accelerating, its stock market is surging, and foreign capital is pouring across its borders at a record rate. Spanish businessmen are already looking ahead to an expected bonanza from the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona and a Seville world's fair that year to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Columbus' first voyage to the Americas. The mood in Spain is distinctly bullish...
...stately, tree-lined Paseo de la Castellana, a boulevard that runs through Madrid's main business district, a rush by foreign banks and other multinational companies to rent or buy scarce office space has helped raise real estate prices 20% over the past year. U.S., European and Japanese businessmen throng Spanish golf courses and savor Madrid's night life...
...maintain the U.S. technological edge over the Soviet Union, the Reagan Administration has nurtured a jerry-built device that frustrates both American businessmen and foreign allies. Washington requires so many export controls that it is difficult to ship abroad even such seemingly innocuous products as CAT scanners and a variety of ball bearings. Last week that play-it-safe national-security policy came under fire from a blue-ribbon panel representing the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering and the Institute of Medicine. In a major study, the panel argued that the restrictions do not work properly and that they...
...creation of an image. The 18-year-old student began brokering sales for a Seattle truck manufacturer. Soon all kinds of businessmen, assuming he was influential in Saudi Arabia, began offering him deals. "My life-style was my only way of making important contacts. I had put together a track record. But that was not enough. I would spend money in order to justify my request to be on prize society and business guest lists. In a few years everybody wanted to be on my guest lists...