Word: gm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should be mistaken: Wyndham Mortimer was a giant of the labor movement. He was so effective an organizer that his so-called allies in labor had to silence him. His fighting spirit shines in Organize! He recalls an incident when he first arrived in Flint, Michigan, to organize the GM plant there and was greeted by a phone threat on his life. "How would you like to go to hell?" I shot back, but the person had hung up. I was fifty-two years old and nobody had taken me out in a box yet; I'd be damned...
...Ford resolution is a replica of the proposal that the Project on Corporate Responsibility entered on the GM proxy statement last year. Harvard abstained on that one. In the past year, the only new face in the Corporation is the face of Derek Bok. Since Bok is the only new input, he and his staff are clearly behind the change in output...
...fact, Harvard voted against or abstained on every other proxy resolution. It rejected an AT&T resolution similar to the Ford one which called for a broadened board. It voted against two other GM resolutions. The University sided with management against proposals to create committees within Honeywell, Sperry Rand and ITT to supervise the transition from warrelated production to peacetime manufacture...
RADICALS HAVE traditionally, and accurately, pointed to the economic dynamics of American and world capitalism as being the prime movers behind an expansionist foreign policy. But to say that a nation dominated by GM and ITT exists in an atmosphere where those in power believe the international expansion of American business to be consonant with the wellbeing of all Americans is very different from claiming that the presidents of those corporate giants have an active role in deciding America's day-to-day foreign policy. We face in the realm of foreign policy--especially in the Southeast Asian nightmare...
...common sense notions of the role of academic communities, the Harvard Administration has openly deprecated the desirability of communitarian decision-making several times in the last year. The Austin report, commissioned last year to investigate the disastrous malcoordination of the University's various decision-making bodies during Campaign GM, adopts the conclusion of an earlier report that...