Word: divesting
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...comes the movement to divest from the Soviet Union, led on campus by the conservative bellwethers over at The Salient, where the gradual onset of Reaganite ennui has provided a healthy indicator of the stagnation and anti-intellectualization of conservative and neo-conservative thought...
Breaking with a long tradition, the ACSR two years ago voted that the Corporation totally divest of such stock for ethical reasons. Last year, however, it reversed itself, deciding instead to help Harvard refine its present investment policy...
...adopt a policy of fighting morally repugnant nations, then the Soviet Union should be at the top of your list," said Baird Professor of History Richard Pipes, a specialist in Russian history who has written numerous recent articles on the need to divest...
...would find it obnoxious to divest from South Africa but not from other countries," he said...
However, if these corporations were to withdraw their South African investments, they would lose their ability to pressure South Africa's government, and heaven knows how slow the pace of reform would be without American corporations standing over South Africa, threatening to divest...