Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prodded by pressures at home, 103 U.S. firms, including nearly all the biggest ones, have signed a code drawn up by Sullivan last year.* Six months ago, U.S. firms started an American Chamber of Commerce with the aim of accelerating anti-apartheid efforts. "Will it work?" muses the chamber'...
Olsen's most significant contribution lies in her perceptive discussion of the environment that nurtures creativity, and of those which destroy it. Why is it that only one out of every 12 writers is a woman? Why, in the period between 1850 to 1950, did only eleven black writers publish...
The fear of being isolated from the outside world is perhaps the second major factor which encourages professors to get away. Like many students who are concerned about being shut up in an ivy tower, they may fear that the Harvard environment shelters them from the realities of life, fosters...
Migdal emphasized the importance of leaves for the regeneration of ideas. "Harvard is a research university, and we very little appreciate how important long stretches of time are to major research. It's simply very hard to develop new ideas in a high-pressure environment," he said.
Insists a local leader, Lenore Johnson: "Motors and snowmobiles do not harm the environment-they only offend the elite canoe purists." Outdoor Equipment Supplier Woods Davis says that he would lose half of his business if he could not rent motorboats to vacationers. Adds John Chelesnik, an Ely fishing diehard...