Word: divestment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Divest from Oil Holdings
...divest, someone else is just going to step right in [and buy the shares]. I don't think we're really going to make much of an impact," said Robert J. Baror...
Sarnoff retired as RCA chairman in 1970 and died a year later. RCA became a conglomerate, diversifying broadly--and unsuccessfully--before being taken over in 1986 by GE, the outfit that started RCA and was forced to divest...
However, Sachs' article is not the first time Harvard students have protested Shell's involvement with human rights and environmental abuses in Nigeria. For example, in 1995 the Undergraduate Council unanimously passed a resolution calling for Harvard to fully divest from Shell...
...political repression of the Ogoni people, Harvard weakens its educational mission and contributes to social regression. I ask the Corporation to remove this ugly stain from our intellectual community and our legacy, to wash our hands of the deplorable execution of the modern hero Ken Saro-Wiwa and to divest all $34 million from Shell...