Word: discussing
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...Overseers Executive Committee then made the decision to divert the divestment issue to the Standing Committee on Institutional Policy to decide how the Board should proceed. The Standing Committee recommended in March that the Board not vote on divestment, but instead form a joint committee with the Corporation to discuss the divestment issue...
President Bok, a voting member of both bodies, has said several times that if the Corporation were in the position of disagreeing with an action of the Overseers, he would counsel the members of both bodies to sit down and discuss their concerns in an informal...
...administration has taken pains to inform board members of this view. A vote on a proposal for divestment was scheduled for the February meeting of the Overseers, but Steiner and Secretary of the Governing Boards Robert Shenton visited two-thirds of the board members before the meeting to discuss the implications of that vote, and to present the administration arguments against such a move...
...convince no one. The University already has two separate committees which keep a watch on investment policy. Divestment has been the major topic of debate on campus for at least the last decade. President Bok has publicly declared his own views on the matter. What more is there to discuss? By now, with divestment, you are either for it or against it, and if you don't have a position, you certainly don't belong on the Board of Overseers...
Shmelyov is participating in a program organized by the Russian Research Center that brings Soviet economists to Harvard to discuss contemporary economic issues in the USSR...