Word: clouding
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Complex issues could cloud the proper emphasis of social consideration in Harvard's investment decisions. The Committee chose to leave the clouds undisturbed. An important issue is the relationship between profitability and responsibility. Recent financial writing has suggested that, by encouraging public good will, by generally indicating flexibility in management, by avoiding costly lawsuits and proxy fights, those companies commonly considered "socially responsible" prove to be more profitable to their investors than those companies that are not. While this is hardly a fixed rule, the opposite assumption-that socially responsible organizations are relatively risky and unprofitable investments-is just...
...Cloud...
...film deals with his struggles as an artist, Frank has an actress play himself. Certain scenes are tinted red to reflect his internal struggle. The dialogue teeters on eloquence, but oftimes fails. Although the direct explication of his problems seems honest enough, the film seems to put a cloud between us and Frank's core. But there is a searing segment when Frank films some convicts in prison for life, singing spirituals. It is noble, powerful... so obviously real and honest that it literally leaps out at the audience. Sad, refreshing, powerful, memorable... then the movie cuts to the silly...
Rain Through the Cloud...
...aware of their excellence, Scott sometimes speaks offhandedly of his art. Still, his comments add up to a valuable handbook for actors (see box, page 66). No matter what part he plays, Scott surrounds himself completely with the assignment. "If you get enough around you, like a cloud," he says, "some of it's got to rain through...