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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...resolutions put forth by shareholders, and the average vote in favor of the Corporations' withdrawal was less than 3 percent. Moreover, since management has control over 80 percent of shareholders votes by proxy, and shareholders' resolutions are, by law, nonbinding requests, any resolutions that might appear are doomed to defeat. In fact, this has been the case each year, even resolutions calling merely for study of the South Africa question have been overwhelmingly defeated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Defense of Divestiture | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...physically ready, but not mentally," explained Captain Stephen Kaufer, who attributed the defeat to Harvard's loss of a "number of very close boats...

Author: By William G. Foulkes, | Title: Penn Edges Harvard Fencers, 14-13, Brown Receives Dualists' Wrath, 20-7 | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

Lacking a coherent offense, and even their usual scrappiness, the hoopsters stuttered haltingly to a 95-48 defeat...

Author: By Paul DUKE Jr., | Title: Women Cagers Fall Again | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...most prolific (52 points per game) since the Blanchard-Davis Army team of 1944 (see box): Nebraska 28, Oklahoma 21. In a stirring game, which ended on a defensive stand, the Cornhuskers became the first team ever to score 600 points in a single season and if they defeat the University of Miami in the Orange Bowl Jan. 2, they will be the national champions and a team of special memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Nebraska, Plainly | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

Senior Captain Stephen Kaufer led the Crimson in the epee division, notching six victories without a defeat. In the foil division, Jeft Levy went 5-1 on the night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fencing | 12/1/1983 | See Source »

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