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...example, what happened to me andmy friend John G. Short '70 during the 1968 Dowsit-in. A recruiter had come to campus from DowChemical, the company that made napalm, analuminum soap made of various fatty acids which,when dropped from planes in wartime, wouldsometimes burn the backs off children. Dow bacamea symbol of greedy corporate investment in the warin Southeast Asia...
...series of protests led up to the dramatic takeover of University Hall. In University Hall in 1968, students trapped a recruiter for the Dow Chemical Corporation, the manufacturer of Napalm. It was Harvard's first-ever sit-in in an administration building...
...complaints begin with the chaos that has sent global stock and bond prices reeling in recent weeks, knocking nearly 10% off the Dow Jones industrial average since its peak on Jan. 31 and placing the future of Wall Street's three-year-old bull run in serious doubt. But beneath the immediate outcry lies a more fundamental criticism of the way Greenspan has tried to keep his balance between several constituencies. According to this line of attack, Greenspan, who fiercely resisted White House pressure for lower interest rates during the Bush Administration, has sought to make an ally of Clinton...
...buyers last week as rising long- term rates pushed the average cost of 30-year, fixed-rate home mortgages to 8.47%, the highest level in 22 months. Just last October, the rate stood at 6.74%. At the same time, stock prices gave jittery investors another wild ride as the Dow average plunged nearly 84 points at the opening bell Monday before finishing up 38 points for the week on Friday...
After falling 42.6 points on Monday, the Dow Jones industrials climbed more than 82 points on Tuesday and ultimately ended the week up 38.3 points...