Word: divests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Board of Trustees of the Yale Corporation decided Wednesday not to divest its investments in South Africa...
According to the position paper, Yale will be prepared to divest its holdings in companies that do not subscribe to a specified code of conduct established by Rev. Leon H. Sullivan, a former Yale chaplain, and accepted by over 100 businesses...
...Durham concert came on the heels of the late April student protests against the Harvard Corporation's decision not to divest itself of stock it holds in companies operating in South Africa. Raitt's reaction was very much in character with her direct, communicative style. She said, "Great. It's about time people got off their ass at Harvard. I think it's great. That's the one thing I missed--a lot of political involvement. In the years that I was building up my career, that seemed to fall by the wayside, and not it's real nice that...
Therefore, it would seem that if the University does divest itself of its South African holdings, it should use this freed money to defray tuition costs, thus lowering or stabilizing tuition, rather than reinvesting it in different company stock. Stanley Hilton Harvard Business School Student
...highly unlikely we'll divest our stock in companies in South Africa," Gardiner said, adding that although the Corporation report recommended against divestiture except in extreme cases, "we reserve the right to make our own decisions...