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...increase in 1980. "I expect a long strike," said Michael Bakalo, a T.W.U. vice president. Securities analysts noted that the airline has some $400 million in cash on hand that it could use to cushion the impact of a lengthy walkout. But a protracted struggle could severely harm both the troubled airline and the strikers...
...financial attractiveness of the various options on divestiture from this year's ACSR, at least as far as the alumni financial experts are concerned. However, President Bok should know that there are Harvard alumni ae with strong backgrounds in finance who believe firmly that divestiture would not have to harm the University portfolio's standing...
First, the majority opinion completely ignores Harvard's primary role in society. The University exists to further education and research. Complete, blind divestiture would harm this basic mandate in two ways. It would entail certain short-term and near-certain long-term damage to Harvard's endowment, a source of anywhere from 11 to 42 percent of the yearly budgets of Harvard's 10 faculties. In addition, such diminished financial security would go hand in hand with diminished intellectual autonomy. Divestiture would expose the University to exactly the same kind of sanctions from donors and other supporters (primarily the federal...
...failure of divestment to cause direct harm to apartheid is inextricably linked to its failure to make a truly effective symbolic statement. The symbolic value of divestiture would consist of a "headline splash" one time, and one time only. Furthermore, the absurd selectivity shown by divestiture advocates is truly appalling. If Harvard were to divest of all stock in companies which profit from profound "evil." It might be reduced to holding only domestically-chartered savings and loan stock. Everything from stock in companies which deal with the Soviet Union. Chile, EI Salvador, and Iran (among many others), or make nuclear...
...discrimination, and I don't want to see that happen again." Since then, his Justice Department has aggressively attacked the use of racial preference in hiring and promotion. William Bradford Reynolds, the outspoken chief of the Justice Department's civil rights division, insists that affirmative action has done more harm than good. "It's demeaning because it says people are going to get ahead not because of what they can do, but because of their race...