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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard sells $1.8 million worth of stock in the Echlin Corporation because the Connecticut trucking firm would not furnish the University "with sufficient data to form a judgement on their operations in South Africa. The University still owns $416 million in South Africa-related stocks...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: A Chronology of Divestment Activism at Harvard | 9/25/1986 | See Source »

...contra representative, who has met mixed receptions on other area campuses, said that the aid would furnish the Honduras-based rebels with equipment sorely needed if they are to overthrow the leftist Sandinista regime that took power in Nicaragua...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: Contra Returns Amid Tight Security; Science Center Audience Videotaped | 5/9/1986 | See Source »

...Beverly Hills and for $4 just across the street in West Hollywood, where developers also found it easier to obtain planning and zoning approvals. "Wealthy people live in Beverly Hills, but West Hollywood is where they come to eat and drink, to listen to music, to furnish their homes," says Ashkenazy, himself a multimillionaire and Beverly Hills resident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In West Hollywood: Exotic Mix | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

Companies like IBM, Exxon, and Ford (all of which Harvard invests in) furnish South Africa with the military and computer technology it needs to discipline and monitor the Black population, murder dissenters, and invade other nations...

Author: By Duncan Kennedy and Jamin B. Raskin, S | Title: Join the Movement | 4/4/1985 | See Source »

...argues that it has no choice but to enforce the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, which says that the agency should register newsletter publishers and monitor their activities. Said John Fedders, the SEC's enforcement director: "Courts of appeals have held uniformly that requiring the registration of persons who furnish investment advice through newsletters is consistent with the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of ( speech and the press." If the SEC prevails in the case, Fedders said, critics should ask Congress to change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tip Tiff: Newsletters VS. the SEC | 1/21/1985 | See Source »

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