Word: implementation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...general reforms, approved 11 votes to none, call for direct corporate involvement in South Africa policies, strict time limits on corporate implementation of Harvard's demands, and a stated University policy of divestiture from companies that are unable to implement desired practices within the time allotted...
...With regard to companies doing less that 50% of their business in South Africa, Harvard will consider divestiture for ethical reasons only when the company has substantially failed to implement reasonable ethical standards, defined as the Sullivan Principles or equivalent policies, when "persistent efforts over a substantial period of time to persuade the company to change its policies have demonstrably failed," and where there is clearly no hope for improvement...
...best to date is called GULFSCENE III, in which Pakistan and India put aside centuries of animosity and join forces to conquer the oil-rich southern coast of the Pesian Gulf. Bored with life in Cambridge, Webster allows himself to be captured by the Paks so he can implement the plan. Soon the CIA gets into the act, as well as a Capitol Hill headline-seeker, a KGB mole in the White House, and an ex-leftist ex-CIA agent "with eyes like faded blueberry stains on a white table-cloth." Webster and a CIA killer with a heart...
Structural solutions to attitudinal problems are always difficult to define and implement. But unless the administration tries, it will likely only be a matter of time before officials are jarred into issuing more declarations of dismay...
...informal consortium of some 30 designers from eight countries has provoked some of the fiercest skirmishes since 1926, when U.S. Customs agents pondered whether Brancusi's Bird in Space was a work of art or a mere metal implement. Some are hailing Memphis as a quantum leap. Says Bill Lacy, president of New York's Cooper Union: "It's bold and shocking, a new way of thinking about furnishings." Its products grace several museum collections and have been featured in more than 200 magazine articles. But the group's self-conscious combination of campy references...