Word: failed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shareholder Responsibility's recent annual report announces a plan to ask companies considering leaving South Africa to describe measures they will take to protect Black workers' rights after they pull out. The scrutiny, Harvard officials said, may lead to divestment from companies departing South Africa if those companies fail to make certain provisions to guarantee Black workers' rights...
Should the bill fail to reach the floor before December 31, it will die in committee, causing a breakdown in the planning of the museum. The donor of the land, Sprague Technologies, and the art collectors have committed themselves only until the end of 1987, after which the land and the art may go to other owners...
...colleges and universities can do more to solve the debt problem by counseling borrowers and by supplementing financial aid packages out of their own coffers. Perhaps more effective ethics instruction in the Core could better educate students about their social obligations. But completely cutting off schools where some students fail to honor their loans only penalizes the great majority of incoming students who would...
...economists generally believe any attempt to restore the Louvre values would push the Federal Reserve back into a dangerous high-interest-rate policy and would be bound to fail anyway. "Willy-nilly the dollar is going to fall in the next two to three years," says Charles Schultze, who headed the Council of Economic Advisers under Jimmy Carter. Feldstein figures that the dollar would have to drop 30% in five years to reach a sustainable value and adds that if natural market forces were left to work unhindered, most of that decline would occur in the next twelve months...
They come with hopes of learning about U.S. life and culture. They come with the aim of providing child care for American families. What tens of thousands of European nannies fail to come with, however, is proper work papers. Since Congress passed a new immigration bill last year, the flood of foreigners who enter the U.S. on tourist visas and then work illegally as live-in baby- sitters has slowed down. Immigration officials are conducting spot checks on the baggage of young female tourists for letters from families offering them work. If any such evidence is found, the would...