Word: divest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This month in a series of articles on housing, The Crimson revealed that the University would divest itself of approximately 25 properties rented to faculty and administrators...
...Daly Report says that "Harvard wants to divest itself of residential property not essential to its own needs"; however, the buy-back agreement serves notice that the University also wishes to retain control over who lives in the houses, all within walking distance of the Yard...
...only right. Eventually my roommate became moderately friendly with him and halfway through exam period they even got stoned together, in an evening which climaxed when my roommate marched indignantly into the Underdog, a restaurant which was already doing a surprisingly thriving business, and demanded that the owner immediately divest his store of its pinball machine, as his contribution to suppressing the Mafia. My roommate claims that the Mafia has a usufruct on all pinball machines and devotes most of the profits from them to hooking ghetto children on heroin, but even if this is true I suspect that...
...previously been held to be illegal-violate the antimonopoly laws. The FTC does not specify what it wants the companies to do in order to end these alleged abuses. For the moment, it asks only "such relief as is necessary or appropriate." This might include forcing the companies to divest themselves of their refining or marketing operations or both...
...Thomas J. Mclntyre of New Hampshire has submitted a bill that would force all U.S. oil companies to give up their retail-marketing divisions by year's end. Florida's attorney general, Robert Shevin, has also filed suit seeking to force the 15 major oil firms to divest themselves of their crude-oil-production arms...