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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...
...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...
Historically, architects have made notable contributions to domestic accessories. From 1903 to the 1930s, Vienna Visionary Josef Hoffmann and others produced jewelry, tableware and even wallpaper at his celebrated Wiener Werkstatte. Bauhaus builders made seating and sinks to furnish their functional structures, and Michigan's Cranbrook Academy of Art inspired mid-century classics like the Eames lounge chair. Frank Lloyd Wright not only fashioned lamps and dinnerware to complement his houses, but even lent his name to mass-produced furniture, carpets and fabrics...
...catcher, though he is properly a third baseman who has played outfield and applied to pitch. With customary Third Baseman Tom Brookens rubbing a hamstring, Castillo has suddenly become a central character and beat out a double play in the second inning of the last game to furnish the essential run. He has a fine sense of mischief: "A few years ago, they came up to me and not.' said, Some 'You're a tune later, catcher.' I catching said, in the 'No, bull I'm pen, I trotted in for a drink...
...increased slightly. The job security provisions include measures to protect miners' seniority and rights at mines leased to new operators, rules to benefit U.M.W. workers laid off as a result of subleasing and a requirement that mineowners notify the union when they plan to sell an operation and furnish proof that the buyer will abide by the union contract. In the past, new owners frequently broke existing wage contracts...