Word: happen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...toward divestment. You suggest that the board will be quite "different" if activist candidates are elected. For myself, I cannot see that the real situation is any "different" this year. You do not remind us that other candidates push for other goals, which, like divestment, may or may not happen to be acceptable to individual voters. All candidates worth voting for always push their own policies and preferences--in finances, in curriculum, in academic administration, and otherwise--and presumably we elect them on the basis of their commitments and convictions. That our candidates have opinions--even strong and perhaps single...
Currently, the fund holds about $20,000 in escrow. Harvard will not get the money until it divests or until significant changes occur in South Africa. If this doesn't happen by 2003, local community groups will get the money...
...said Seidman: "We don't think Harvard's [investment] policy reflects what most alumni think should happen." She said that Harvard "has been looking for a middle ground in what has become a highly polarized issue...
...leftist rebels are permitted to enter but are not supposed to incite hostilities. While both the military and the guerrillas have pledged to honor Rivera's plan, there is no binding agreement. "The plan is going ahead with 'an understanding,' which means it is inevitable that incidents will happen," says a Western diplomat...
...year ago, Newsweek headlined the question "Did it have to happen?" Invoking inevitability as an explanation begs the question of why Move didn't just surrender in the first place. The report concludes that the city bungled negotiations with the group. The only way Move could talk to the city was through a bullhorn. The only way the city could talk to Move is epitomized in the final words of the city's ambassadors to the besieged people--"Come on, cut the shit...