Word: harlan
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...appeal to Davis and her husband after Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed the nonaggression pact early in World War II,her children told the Boston Globe in 1993. But Davis remained vocal about progressive issues through her speeches and writing. She wrote magazine articles about the Harlan County coal strike and the hardship of Southern tenant farming...
With no organized opposition emerging at the Faculty meeting of March 2, 1954, Harvard became the first school to endorse the Blackmer Report, approving the CEP report and creating a Committee on Special Standing. Harlan P. Hanson ’48, then-assistant senior tutor of Kirkland House, was put in charge of its implementation...
...Mogadishu. The domestic outrage that ensued convinced Bill Clinton that public opinion would inevitably revolt against any nation-building effort—or any war at all—at the first sign of casualties. This concern echoed throughout his presidency. It led to his ordering the USS Harlan County’s retreat from a thuggish mob in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; it paralyzed him into inaction on the Rwandan genocide; it muddled his response to ethnic cleansing in Bosnia; it influenced his appeasement of the murderous Foday Sankoh in Sierra Leone; and it dissuaded him from pursuing...
...securities-law violators. From 1995 to 2001, the SEC recouped just $424 million, or 13.6% of the $3.1 billion owed in these cases, and for the last year its record dropped to 11.5%. The reason the SEC can't collect the cash? "Crooks spend it," says spokeswoman Christi Harlan. The good news is that under legislation passed in July, misled investors can also get civil penalties that once went into federal coffers. Of the $46.9 million ordered paid in civil penalties in the past year, nearly $45 million has been recovered...
...face new questions over an unsecured $282,200 loan he received from ImClone. He signed a promissory note in December 2000, records show. Two months later, the loan was approved by the executive committee of ImClone's board, sources say. That group consisted of him, his brother Harlan Waksal and a third member associated with a firm that had a $400,000-a- year contract to manage ImClone's debt. Sam Waksal's spokesman said the loan was paid...