Word: holding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eventually compromised on a graduated, five-step policy designed to bring about corporate withdrawal from South Africa. Under the terms underlined in the letter Harvard would stop investing in corporations operating in South Africa, support or initiate shareholder resolutions calling for corporate withdrawal, in corporations whose stock they currently hold, publicize the rationale behind its actions, seek support of other shareholders, and if these efforts fail, adopt a policy of "strategic divestiture...
...each election year endorses a slate of candidates who agree to run on the same platform and support the same candidates for mayor and school superintendent. Currently, civic association members hold four of the nine city council slots, and control three of the seven school committee seats...
...federal government in Ottawa. Western Canadians feel that their interests have too long been ignored or overlooked by Ottawa and want a larger say in the nation's affairs. Overriding everything, of course, is the issue of separatism in Quebec, and Premier Levesque's plan to hold a referendum on a new form of "sovereignty-association" between his province and the rest of Canada...
Under this year's bill, hospitals would be given until Jan. 1, 1980, to show that they can voluntarily hold down the increase in their costs. Controls would go into effect only if hospitals fail to keep their average annual increase to 9.7%, plus an adjustable figure to compensate for general inflation. That is hardly a stingy rise. Even so, more than half of the nation's nearly 6,000 community hospitals, mainly those in small towns and in states with effective cost control laws already on the books, would be exempt from controls. The country's 1,200 other...
...other care administered in a doctor's office rather than a hospital. If Congress will not push the Blue plans and private insurers in this direction, corporations could and should. Exxon, General Motors and AT&T have the bargaining power that individual patients lack and a powerful incentive to hold down medical costs: the lower the insurance premiums they pay, the more money they will have to expand plants, raise wages or distribute to stockholders...