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...Corporation first moved to retract this concession after being forced to divest $50 million in Citibank debt securities following the announcement of the bank's participation in a consortium loan to South Africa in September 1980. Much to the Corporation's dismay, Harvard's commendable action received unexpectedly widespread press coverage and proved highly embarrassing to Citibank and the South African regime. Soon after, Citibank dispatched a representative to consult with the Corporation and lobby University officials to relax their present policy. The Corporation responded by applying pressure on the ACSR to approve the repeal of the 1978 concession...
...presidents who signed the letter represent colleges that are actively involved with city public schools as part of a plan to speed desegregation by improving "magnet schools" to draw students from all over the city. Silber, the chairman of the President's Steering Committee of the Boston Schools Consortium said that it was essential that the committee involve itself in the school system including such action as the Spillane endorsement. "We are involved, it's right that we be heard," Silber said...
...project, named for an Amazon tributary that winds through the property. Possibly the largest entrepreneurial effort ever undertaken by one man, Jari had just begun to generate significant cash flows, but they were nowhere near as large as Ludwig had originally envisioned. Jari will now be sold to a consortium of Brazilian banks, insurance companies and industrial groups...
...irritating question: Why can't we do these things as well as the British? The answer, if the Cheever play is an indication of what follows, is that we can, if we are true to our own talents and our own idiom. That, at least, is what a consortium of four stations-in New York, Boston, Los Angeles and South Carolina-are trying to prove. With a budget of $12.9 million, they have filmed or taped programs all over the country. Next on the list are BJ. Merholz's King of America, the story of early Greek immigrants...
While U.S. aviation manufacturers are running into troubles, the European Airbus, a medium-range wide-bodied jet that flies about 250 passengers and is built by a consortium of four governments, continues to make inroads. Airbus Industrie has passed both McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed to become the second largest seller of commercial jets in the world. A total of 320 of the wide-bodied airliners have been sold since 1974. The consortium is also planning a plane for the highly competitive 150-seat market. One interested prospect: Atlanta-based Delta, currently the most profitable U.S. carrier. America's once...