Word: coded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard men's hockey Captain Ken Code headlined the National Division I Academic All-American Ice Hockey Team announced yesterday. The senior defenseman who rose from obscurity to become the Crimson's captain is an Economics concentrator and a native of Carleton Place, Ontario, Canada...
...decision, the court sustained the Third Circuit appeals court's interpretation of section 365 (a) of the Bankruptcy Code, which states that businesses facing bankruptcy may repudiate "executory contracts" with its creditors subject to the approval of the Bankruptcy Court...
Justice Brennan, in his partial dissenting opinion, writes for the minority . "The Court's concentration on the Bankruptcy Code and its refusal to accommodate that stature with the NLRA is particularly incongruous since the analysis (of the unanimous portion of the decision) rests almost exclusively on the recognition that the two statutes must be accommodated." The Bankruptcy Code, of course, makes no distinction between labor and other creditors. The court followed the Code when it contradicted the labor laws on unfair practices, and made no special accommodation for labor...
...clear example of the limited function of the ACSR is the body's stance on the Sullivan Principles, a very limited code of ethics for companies doing business in South Africa...
Even after the ACSR took the unprecedented step last spring of recommending that the University hold companies in which it holds stock to the Sullivan Principles as a minimum standard, nine companies have failed to sign the code, have received an unsatisfactory rating as a signatory, or have failed to report its practices with respect to the principles. Of those companies, the Corporation has only singled out three for "intensive dialogue," despite President Bok's previous statement that the Corporation would support ACSR recommendations. As an advisory body, the ACSR is ultimately of limited importance...