Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What the Corporation has chosen to do is retainHarvard's selective divestment policy. Theofficial line on South Africa investments is thatHarvard will vote on proxy resolutions toencourage companies to divest, while refrainingselling stock in those companies should theyrefuse...
...some other universities have chosen todivest completely from companies which haveholdings in South Africa. Columbia University, forinstance, "does not invest in any companies whichhave facilities in South Africa," says Roberta M.Weil, the school's vice president for investments...
...that a Warsaw court officially legalized Solidarity, George Bush announced a plan to ease Poland's $39 billion foreign-debt burden, stimulate investment and improve its weak economy. "The Poles are now taking steps that deserve our active support," said the President, adding that the package was "carefully chosen to recognize the reforms under way and to encourage reforms yet to come now that Solidarnosc is legal...
Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Shintaro Abe and Kiichi Miyazawa, both leading candidates when Takeshita was chosen party leader in November 1987, are considered out of the running now because of their own ties to the scandal...
...MacArthur Foundation is one of the largest private funders of mental health research, according to Hearne. Although he was unable to comment on why Radcliffe College in particular was chosen for the grant, Hearne cited the foundation's general interest in longitudinal studies...