Word: fighting
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...divest its stock in companies which to business in South Africa. However President Bok and the four members of the governing Corporation's Committee on Sharcholder Responsibility prepared reports this fall attacking divestiture and defending Harvard's position of "constructive engagement." According to that theory, the best way to fight against the racist apartheid system is through pushing American companies--through proxies and "intensive dialogue"--to improve opportunities for Blacks...
...TOOK the daring legislative move of a town in Illinois. Morton Groves, to teach the National Coalition to fight the NRA with its own weapons--at least on a legal front. Denied success at the federal and state levels, the Coalition has adopted Morton Groves' absolute ban on the sale and possession of handguns as a model for its legal campaign. The NRA has always sworn with its right hand on the Second Amendment wherever it takes its stand: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep...
...federal anticrime laws as historic and far reaching [LAW, Oct. 29]. But the criminal-law experts you cite, who express doubt about the act's effect on the crime rate, fail to recognize the practical significance of these reforms. The laws contain tough new measures to help fight organized crime and major drug trafficking, which have been estimated to cause as much as half of all street crime. The anticrime package also contains more than 50 new sections, many of which enhance local law-enforcement efforts. These include statutes providing for tough action against repeat offenders, a permanent toll...
...differences in the bills loom very large when viewed from the perspective of those who would be hurt. The tax credit for new investments, for example, is worth some $29 billion a year to corporations; they see it as vital to a sustained recovery and would wage a fierce fight to keep it. Business also enjoys some $19 billion annually in tax gains from accelerated depreciation schedules. The total tax breaks for business under the current code will amount to $95 billion this year. Most of them were designed as incentives to encourage economic growth, modernize plants...
...third time that Lecce fell in the first round, to his knees, seemed a delayed response to a hard blow to the spirit. Lecce immediately announced his retirement. "This was going to be my last fight anyway," he said without regret, only a little embarrassed after the T.K.O. Commending Taylor, "a good technician," Lecce confessed he had been unable to rouse any prefight bile. "Like everyone else I was very proud of these guys," he said softly, and by then the pipes were calling Evander Holyfield...