Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...take an unbiased look at the management practices of Harvard stocks on specific proxy issues. The delegation of Harvard's proxy votes to this body would enable Bok and the Corporation to sincerely claim that Harvard is seeking to alleviate problems of conflict of interest and to squarely confront Harvard's responsibilities as a stockholder. GENERAL INVESTMENTS Market Value COMMON STOCKS (continued) Utilities (continued) Electric (continued) 100353 shs. Kansas Power & Light Co. 2,533,913 555000 " Middle South Utilities, Inc. 11,238,750 62968.45 " Missouri Public Service Co. 1,094,076 162009 " New England Electric System...
About this time, he got into drugs. Not acid or mesc, but a lot of dope smoking. It made it easier to get through the day, and made it easier to put up with the people he had to confront. Whenever he smoked, it became clear that the world was divided into two camps. Some were for him and some were against. But at least it was clear. Once, he got stoned, sprawled out on his bed, and flipped on the stereo. And it was just like the man said: "We won't get fooled again...
...committee works pretty well together. I'm not really satisfied with what has happened yet, but I think that this is probably a better group than many committees the University has set up. This is the best way to get at the problems Harvard and Radcliffe must confront," Michaels said...
Ever since the Weimar Republic, with its short-lived Cabinets and chronic crises, collapsed in the face of Nazism, Germans have worried about their ability to build a stable, democratic political system. The latest political crisis to confront the Federal Republic should do much to allay those fears. Less than two weeks after Willy Brandt stunned his countrymen by suddenly resigning as Chancellor, a new government was functioning smoothly in Bonn. Last Thursday, in the modern and austere Bundestag chambers, Social Democrat Helmut Schmidt, 55, took the oath as West Germany's fifth Chancellor...
...true evangelistic zeal and fervor" who was taking on a job that was "no bed of roses." Wrote Mervyn Stockwood, the liberal and nonconformist Bishop of Southwark, in the London Times: "I placed Donald Coggan at the top of the list. [He] is well aware of the problems that confront a generation that has been reared in a scientific era ... [He] is increasingly aware of the need for the church to concern itself with practical affairs." Others praised Coggan's efficiency and administrative abilities. "A theologian with a tape recorder handy for prompt dictation, and a meticulousness equal...