Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard administration should therefore seriously consider the advantages of Stanford University's offer. The failings of the Harvard system are obvious; the wishes of the student body are clear; and the educational value of foreign study is indisputable...
...however, squeeze through a watered-down bill in order to avoid seeing the tougher Common Cause proposal on the November ballot. As local attorney Robert Moncreiff explains, "while a lot of people woke up this January and felt the law had dropped out of the sky, it was clear that it would have been on the November referendum list if the legislature didn't act quickly--and nobody wanted that...
...investment in the large multinational corporations, which comprise the bulk of U.S. business interests. However, in the ten years since 1968 the multinationals have not fared nearly so well. Many investors now prefer to invest in other stocks, or in real estate, government bonds, etc. It is far from clear that a carefully thoughout investment strategy motivated by non-investment in apartheid would reduce Harvard's income at all, let alone by the amounts Harvard cites...
...seems clear that without internal and external pressure, the Nationalist regime will not find it in its interest to make substantive concessions to the black majority. By threatening the very foundation of white prosperity, continuous and substantial capital outflow is one of our best hopes for inducing the white population, or at least certain critical factions within that population, to begin good faith negotiations with the leaders of the African, "colored" and Asian majority. But in the event that accommodation is not achieved, at the very least the scaling down of multinational corporate presence would put the regime...
Several of those questioned recommended that the mayor step down. Others thought that all he had to do to clear his name was pay his bill to the city. But all those questioned were definitely mad at the mayor...