Word: followers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First, other universities and non-profit institutions would come under intense pressure to follow Harvard's example. Second, those companies which are most sensitive to public relations would have to re-examine their South African ties, deciding either not to expand existing operations, to start cutting back operations, or, in some cases, to withdraw entirely. Thirdly, political leaders and corporate planners who try to gauge long-term trends would see Harvard's action as further evidence that the days of the white minority regime are numbered. To be sure, divestiture would not have an immediate financial effect on the companies...
...minority students who did get involved were placed on the minority affairs committee, and they reacted by boycotting the conference after several days of discussion and presentation of a seven-point plan to combat racism by the Big 11. Moreover, the absolutely crucial question of how to follow-up whatever decisions the conference came to was left until the very end of the plenary session...
...Harvard delegation has not met since returning from Philadelphia. The plan now is to present all conference findings to the appropriate Student Assembly committees for consideration, and to also work on translating resolutions and suggestions into action here. Conference organizers themselves have set up a follow-up network, and some more issue-oriented, progressive delegates who were on the conference's student government committee plan a meeting later this year. Activists on various campuses have exchanged names and phone numbers. So, for Harvard at least, some tangible results have occurred...
...question Gruenewald, he decided it would be prudent not to answer. Instead, he booked airline flights to Bogota, Manila, Tokyo, Taiwan, anywhere far from Queens. Learning of this, FBI agents decided they could wait no longer. They seized Sepe, whose beeping radio made his T-bird easy to follow, and they also grabbed Gruenewald and Werner. The good listener was charged as a material witness. The FBI hopes that his detention will lead gang members to feel that someone who knows a lot is telling all, thus causing even more falling out among the thieves...
...which both sides would make sacrifices. With some exceptions, price rises would be held to less than the average of the past two years, while wages and most benefits would go up no more than 7% annually. All companies, no matter how large or small, would be expected to follow the guidelines. Firms with sales of $250 million or more annually would have to file reports to COWPS showing that their price rises were being kept within the prescribed limits. Offenders would first be warned privately by COWPS. If that did not work, they would be publicly denounced-in extreme...