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...knows how much longer the court hearings will continue, but the environmentalists are starting to enlist more troops for the battle if the decisions should go in favor of Con...
Harvard voted its $6 million in Con Oil stock for a resolution to have the company stop searching for oil off the coast of Namibia, and against a resolution to have the company set up an energy policy committee, as the ACSR recommended...
Disclosure on environmental protection and mine safety measures and on minority hiring is "important and of legitimate concern to shareholders" in Con Oil, the subcommittee said, but not in the "extensive detail" called for by Campaign Continental, the group of Miners for Democracy and Ralph Nader staffers which solicited proxies for the Con Oil resolution...
...trouble with all these resolutions," Calkins explained, "is that they have good points and bad points." He said the subcommittee would probably have supported a resolution that restricted itself to Con Oil's apparently accident-prone coal mines, instead of asking for information on the company's other operations as well...
...research area, its natural grandeur in close proximity to the New York metropolis and its importance as a part in the Hudson valley conservation system, the University should reaffirm its past statements supporting Scenic Hudson. And Harvard should make a more substantial contribution to the fight to restrain Con Ed than another letter to The New York Times...