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...Corporation must not heed Citibank's cries that the $250-million loan it made to the government last fall--which led to Harvard's sale of $50-million-worth of Citibank notes and securities--went to "humanitarian" causes and should spark a reexamination of Harvard's policy. We continue to advocate total divestiture of all investments in banks lending money to the South African government or companies operating with or in South Africa...
...twiddler who can solve all six sides is known as a cubist or cubemeister. Rather than risk such status, most mortals might better heed the advice of Marc Ingenoso, a teaching assistant at the University of Wisconsin: "I think it's wise never to pick the thing...
...influence, and then on his own, Haig rose to a variety of important jobs; at one point he prepared briefings that Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara presented to the President and the National Security Council. Once the major U.S. involvement in Viet Nam began, Haig decided to heed the old maxim that no Army officer can rise to the top without experience in combat command, which he lacked despite some brief battle experience in Korea. He went to Viet Nam in 1966 and the next year led a battalion to victory in the battle...
Jean Struven Harris behind bars is a study in incongruities. She once ran her own kingdom, the Madeira School, where heed was paid and homage given to the headmistress. She once presided over gourmet luncheons, toast and tea, with women who would come and go, talking of Michelangelo. But white gloves and perfect diction are not exactly called for in an American prison. She no longer manages an institution. It manages...
Anyone with heavy debts benefits from inflation, which is why Americans no longer heed the warning in Hamlet: "Neither a borrower nor a lender be." People take out loans in the expectation that they will be able to pay them off later with cheaper dollars. And in recent years they have been right. Borrowers can now repay their debts with dollars worth just 63? in 1975 terms. That view is an important factor behind the sharp increase in consumer installment debt, which since 1975 had gone from $172.4 billion to $305.5 billion by the end Of last October...