Word: divested
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Murphy then called upon Harvard to divest fromits remaining holdings in companies that dobusiness in South Africa, which currently total$138 million...
What a difference a few months make: South African Archbishop Tutu's candidacy for the Board of Overseers created quite a fuss among alumni last year, and both sides of the divestment issue took turns at dishing out the rhetoric. Robert P. Wolff '54, who directs the pro-divestment alumni group which nominated Tutu, often said Tutu's mere presence on the Board could force Harvard to divest completely from South Africa-related investments...
...slate of candidates nominated for the Board of Overseers by Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA). The group has nominated candidates for the past four years in the hopes that the Board, which advises the seven-member Harvard Corporation on University policy, would vote to divest...
...most political decisions of the year, the Undergraduate Council last night called on the University to divest from the strike-torn Pittston Coal Company and endorsed an international fast in memory of the students massacred in Beijing last spring...
...case, Harvard, the 19th-largest stockholder in the Pittston Corporation, should divest itself of the 311,800 shares it holds...