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...writes that corporations can do more good in South African than out of it. He fails to realize that these corporations employ less than one percent of the Black labor force and the work place reforms which he encourages affect only that small fraction of the exploited. He fails to realize that the incredibly high profits which keep U.S. corporations attracted to South Africa are the direct results of the cheap labor supplied by the country's Blacks. He fails to realize that U.S. corporations therefore have a stake in maintaining the apartheid regime. He fails to realize that...
Last year, in a major report on University policy toward companies that do business in South Africa, the ACSR voted 6-5 with one abstention to recommend that Harvard sell all the stock it holds in companies that do any fraction of their work in South Africa. Failing unilateral divestiture, the ACSR urged the Corporation to strengthen its advocacy of the so-called Sullivan principles and make corporate adoption of the Tutu Resolutions prerequisites for continued University investment...
Although such objects are as far as 10 trillion miles away, they clearly can effect the earth. If the solar system passed through the Oort cloud, a bombardment of comets would shake loose. Even if a small fraction of them made contact with the earth, the impact would blow enough debris into the atmosphere to cut off sunlight and cause a cosmic winter, ultimately extinguishing most of the life on the planet...
...they want the cluster bombs to defend themselves against the kind of human-wave assaults that Iran has tried in the past. They could also do considerable damage to the pipelines and loading equipment at Kharg Island and other Iranian oil terminals. The Chilean cluster bombs represent only a fraction of Iraq's huge arsenal, which consists mostly of weapons bought from the Soviet Union and France. But for Chile's budding arms industry the deal offers visibility, and perhaps field testing, in one of the bloodiest wars now under...
...often for the inefficiencies of those who impose the wait. Hence the peculiar rage that waits engender, the sense of injustice. Aside from boredom and physical discomfort, the subtler misery of waiting is the knowledge that one's most precious resource, time, a fraction of one's life, is being stolen away, irrecoverably lost...