Word: divestment
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...Nigeria can withstand these diplomatic censures as long as its financial support remains intact. Most of that support comes from foreign investment, particularly from oil companies that export primarily to the United States. Shareholders in those companies now have a moral obligation to divest. American investors should let the world know that their money does not go to tyrants and murderers...
...writing in response to Joshua A. Kaufman's column entitled "Should Doris Live Here?" (Dec. 11, 1995). Kaufman argues that a "distorted notion of fairness is the common rationale behind [Cambridge] residents' call for Harvard to 'divest' of its Cambridge real estate interests...
...seems that a distorted notion of fairness is the common rationale behind the residents' call for Harvard to "divest" from its Cambridge real estate interests. Tanner doesn't believe it is right for her to lose her home, though she has only lived at her current address for two years. Rohr thinks that the market itself is unfair because he can't afford to live where he desires. Hall is of the socialist mindset that property seizure is just so long as it benefits the least well...
Nearly 50 Cambridge residents gathered last night in freezing temperatures to demand that Harvard divest itself from 700 formerly rent-controlled apartments...
Organizers of the vigil say they hope to win support for an Oct. 24 resolution passed by the Cambridge City Council recommending that Harvard divest itself of all its formerly rent-controlled property...