Word: caterpillar
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...committees also voted down a shareholder proposal for Caterpillar to evaluate whether it complied with its code of conduct for worldwide business when it sold—directly or indirectly—its equipment to the Israeli Defense Force. The equipment was subsequently used to destroy Palestinian homes in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Gray said that other groups that vote on proxies look to Harvard for its rationale when they vote...
Somerville’s pension fund has shares in United Technologies, Caterpillar, Boeing and other corporations that provide Israel with defense equipment...
...more accurately, he was a guy who was shaking off the molting exoskeleton of Some Dude—and I’d said one word to him. But the larger truth at hand was yes, he had evolved before my very eyes—like a snazzily-dressed caterpillar, or perhaps some kind of Pokemon—into something more. It was startling...
...concern. Wen accepted the 19-gun salute he received on the South Lawn of the White House, then fired his own volley, gently reminding his hosts that China is the fastest-growing market for America's exports. There are U.S. companies that agree. Multinationals such as Motorola and Caterpillar have invested heavily in China and strongly oppose protectionism targeted at China...
...telling Wen that Tibet belongs to the Tibetans. My blonde-haired roommate from upstate New York has been a devout Tibetan Buddhist since childhood. One night at the dinner table sophomore year, she noticed some peculiar deposits on the mixed greens in her salad, which she recognized as caterpillar eggs. Instead of throwing them away as you or I would have done, she cared for them until they hatched into little green caterpillars, then morphed into fuzzy white-and-black moths who proceeded to make more caterpillar eggs. Eventually there were hundreds of caterpillars in our little room, too many...