Word: favorably
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Union PACs favor Democrats over Republicans by a ratio of about 12 to 1. By contrast, the corporate donations this year were split about equally between Democrats and Republicans. Most of the money went to incumbents with lots of seniority. Says John Bonitt, head of Bendix Corp.'s PAC: "That's where the committee chairmen are." Louisiana Democrat J. Bennett Johnston, who heads Senate subcommittees on energy and appropriations, received at least $192,000 from about 190 PACs, though he had only token opposition in the primary and none in the general election. Why so much support? Says...
During the ACSR meeting of Nov. 29, 1978, the following hypothetical situation was discussed: if the whole Harvard community (variously defined as 90 to 99 per cent) were to favor the initiation of a shareholder resolution in a company, should the Harvard Corporation be bound to take the action? The answer of these members was no, because, in the words of one, it was "too much democracy." Since some committee members have shown what I consider paternalistic attitudes towards South African blacks, suggesting that blacks do not know what is best for themselves, I wonder why these members should doubt...
Last year, after considerable discussion, the ACSR recommended that the corporation vote Harvard's shares in favor of some resolutions favoring modified withdrawal of some companies. The Corporation abstained on them, the reason being that there was no time to meet beforehand. This problem should have been anticipated by Mr. Stevens. In any case, it seems quite suspicious to me that the corporation should negate the ACSR on one of the most important set of decisions it made. I imagine there was some relation to the fact that those decisions were some of the largest steps toward supporting withdrawal that...
...Grammercy, Weber expressed confidence the court would decide in his favor. "It's been almost four years since the suit was filed and I didn't expect to get near this status," he said. "I would have been satisfied to have resolved at any time in the past four years, but I guess it's too important to be settled this early...
...heart attack; in Hanoi, three days after his return from his visit to the Vatican for the last papal conclave. Named his nation's first bishop in 1950, Trin Nhu Khue elected to remain in his native Hanoi after North Viet Nam gained its independence in 1954. In favor of a modest rapprochement with the Communists but steadfast in his refusal to vote in their elections, he was imprisoned in 1959 for a year and barred thereafter from traveling outside his country. That ban was dramatically broken in 1976 when he was allowed to go to the Vatican...