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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stock market indicated the public's response. Shares of Columbia Pictures, which gained a publicity bonanza for its movie, soared by $2.74 in two days, to $24.75. Stocks of nuclear power companies declined sharply. General Public Utilities, which owns the damaged plant, dropped 50¢ a share, while the stock of Kerr-McGee plunged...
...medical equipment, and only about 5% from atomic fallout and such consumer products as microwave ovens and TV sets and production of nuclear power. Radiation sickness is almost certain at exposures of around 50,000 millirems. The Government has set a permissible annual level of radiation exposure for the general public of 500 millirems and for nuclear power plant workers 5,000 millirems. But these standards have been sharply questioned by radiation biologists, physicians and other scientists, and the Government is now reviewing its policy...
Responding to additional faculty complaints, Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel for the University, expressed the University's disatisfaction with the mural to the company...
...Austin committee also reached some specific conclusions on Harvard's role as an investor. While urging the University to make investments to achieve "maximum return," the committee noted some exceptions to that general rule. It said Harvard should avoid investments in South African corporations but added. "When it comes to investing in American corporations that do business in foreign countries, a policy line would be even more difficult to draw." (The University had no investments in South African corporations at the time of the Austin committee report and now has a policy of not investing in such companies...
...guidelines that companies choosing to remain in South Africa should follow in order to "ameliorate the effects of apartheid with respect to their own employees, even where such action impinges on profitability." The guidelines are based on principles first proposed in 1977 by Rev. Leon Sullivan, a director of General Motors Corporation, and would require a company to end discriminatory practices in employment and working conditions...