Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home-rule fail to attract the necessary support in a Scottish referendum in early March? Polls have shown that as much as 80 per cent of the population wants Scotland to have more say in its own governance; they support proposals ranging from complete independence for Scotland to some form of federalism to the limited home rule, called "devolution,' suggested in the referendum...
Finally, a very recent example, the Burroughs Corporation, which had in the past been selling computers to the government, was asked in the form of a shareholder resolution from a number of church groups to stop selling anything to the government, and they responded by saying they would not invest further in South Africa at all, and they would not knowingly sell either products or sales and service to any organization that was involved in oppressive work...
...site monitoring capability, and we hope that he is including in his plans, or has an intent ion of, distributing his efforts on a company-by-company basis to interested shareholders like Harvard. He has not done that thus far and has forced the University in the form of the ACSR to sort of duplicate a great deal of what has gone on, and I will describe that briefly...
...respond to requests for information, and we are going to recommend that they be requested in forcefully worded requests to provide that information to us; we have also suggested that it may not be inappropriate--well, this is again not Corporation policy--to ask for that information in the form of shareholder resolutions. But I personally would not be averse to voting against management on resolutions that were introduced with respect to these companies concerning their South African operations on the ground that we have no information telling us they're doing anything beneficial in that country...
...have fun sticking up our noses at disco, funk, and other repetitive mood music, but when musicians of Hancock's caliber choose this route it forces some serious questions. Hancock is a terrific jazz musician who rose through the tradition and then (many would say) abandoned it to form the Headhunters, a prototypical jazz-funk fusion group. The Headhunters brought Hancock mass appeal of a kind never before experienced by a jazz-associated musician, but he also took the brunt of a great backlash of criticism from the jazz community which was directed against musicians who deserted the more serious...