Word: buying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boston Mayor Kevin White led the charge. "Everybody knows that Washington, D.C., has no culture-they have to buy it," raged White. He was not mollified by the stipulation that the paintings would return to Boston once every five years for the next 50 years. To try to stop or at least stall the sale, White asked the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court last week for a temporary restraining order. His argument: that $800 of the Stuarts' original purchase price of $1,500 in 1831 had come from a public subscription. Hence there was a "public trust" that forbade...
...OPEN MEETING with students last week, President Bok told his audience, "If you want to effect social change, either join a church group or buy your own stock." The Coalition for Action and Awareness, formed by representatives of ten student groups, has answered by calling for a student boycott of classes Monday, April...
Finally, the claim of consumer sovreignty does not address the people-vs.-profits issue. Would Federated and Allied continue to conduct business-as-usual with a foreign company discovered to be using slave labor? People buy Stevens because it's cheap, and that is so for two reasons: First, the company has made a concerted attempt to "dump" their products to beat the boycott, selling them below cost to keep the retailers on their side. Stevens board chairman Finley reported publicly to President Carter's office that "during the base period 1976-77 we sold our products substantially below cost...
Vast amounts of money were and are dispensed to buy, bribe or bully the loyalty of many Third World students. William Corson, the intelligence historian, cites one former CIA official as saying in 1976. "By 1985 we'll own 80 per cent of the Iranian government's second and third-level officials." One can almost see Ayatollah Khomeini's beard turn a whiter shade of grey. This ridiculous statement follows from the agency's incurable optimism about its own power and the success of its programs. The official failed to note that once in place only about one ex-student...
...small right-wing chain when they refused to give front-page play to a couple of vicious anti-Carter stories. Last week the government of South Africa admitted that it made available $11.5 million from a secret slush fund in 1974 during McGoff s unsuccessful attempt to buy the Washington Star. Presumably, South Africa hoped to turn the Star into a public relations organ for that country's racism. Loeb and McGoff are anachronisms, but hardly powerful...