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Calling for students to demand that the University divest its shares in South African holdings, he said nevertheless that in dealing with corporations his own posture must be more conservative and "realistic...
Five years later, the headlines have returned to southern Africa, but this time, the University is offering students an alternative to occupying buildings if they want to persuade the University to divest...
Even if the ACSR decides that South Africa is more repressive than other countries and that Harvard should divest, the University need not act on the recommendation. The ACSR has no way of enforcing its suggestions for Harvard's portfolio...
Whatever the courts rule, the cartel's shenanigans are certain to refuel congressional demands that the nation's oil companies divest themselves of their nonpetroleum activities. At the least, the trials will give yet more ammunition to oil-industry critics who charge that some of the world's largest and most powerful corporations think they have become a law unto themselves...
...Firestones responses was very general and incomplete, focusing on the aconomic rather than the social issues involved," Murphy said. The investment committee unanimously decided the response was inadequate and decided to divest itself of the stock, he added...