Word: fact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, its distinction between "action" and "information" resolutions suggests that it never plans to do anything. However, one would think that the idea of shareholder responsibility meant asking a company to stop doing something that one doesn't like or asking it to do something that one thinks it should do. But the ACSR isn't about to shoot off a rocket. Imagine, the ACSR turns out to be a group charged, in the name of shareholder responsibility, with the solemn task of endlessly gathering information from obliging corporate officials. Perhaps it is high time for us to conclude that...
...that it abhors apartheid, what should the University do? Divest. Why? First, because black South African leaders have asked corporations to withdraw. The University points to the silence of a few black leaders on this issue as evidence of support for corporate presence in South Africa. This overlooks the fact that South Africa has made it a capital crime publicly to demand corporate withdrawal...
This is as it should be. Yet the problem with this type of thinking is that it is easily perverted: it makes the step from one world, where there are very few moral absolutes, to another world, where there are none, all too simple. The fact that many students of professional ethics are left to assume the basic moral principles of the world, leaves them the freedom to assume that they do not exist at all. "The ethics of the situation" obscure the morality of the human condition; living for the moment, for the immediate context, the professional...
...Stanley probably will be far from Harvard next year--Honolulu, in fact. Stanley said he has been offered, and is likely to accept, a ten-year endowment to write a history of Hawaii, focusing on the period between Captain Cook's exploration and the American annexation of Hawaii...
...exist. Each man's chances of being, says Lem's Professor Kouska, is a "teragigamegamulticentillion-to-one shot." In physics, one chance in a centillion is considered an impossibility because there are fewer than a centillion seconds before the end of the universe. The origin of this fact is unclear. But who's counting...