Word: hold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, told the picketers that "all banks in which we (Harvard) hold certificates of deposit have told us they will not make or renew loans in South Africa...
...control into another, equally dangerous extreme. It is, for example, too simple to go all the way over the edge, to invoke the sanctity of a free speech and press, and to deny a newspaper's right to refuse any ads at all. There are those, after all, who hold that a newspaper has no right at all to deny access to its columns--to restrict the right of free speech, in its printed form--to anyone who will pay for it. But those people, thankfully, are few in number...
...free speech argument simply does not hold, precisely because access to a newspaper is anything but free. What one may say in advertisement is limited by the amount of money he or she can pay; no money, no speech. To build onto this argument an artificial superstructure, within which there is free speech for those who can afford it and none for those who cannot, is an exercise in truly creative logic. Simply put, the analogy does not make sense; a newspaper does not print everything it can, but instead sells its services --its paper and ink and column rules...
...when that advertisement walked in this week, we should have accepted it. Not with open arms, of course--we hold no high opinion of Mr. David Chan, the seamy publication that pays his salary, nor the degrading line of work into which he has fallen. We simply believe in letting him say what he wants, when and where he wants...
...state supreme court did promise to hold hearings on the case before the scheduled shooting...