Word: incur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...press for more money to feed the state bureaucracy, it is to involve the public in the workers' struggle for advancement. With determination and good luck, a revival in public awareness and concern could lead to many things, among them an unwillingness on the part of growers to incur the general wrath by stalling in court for up to ten years, and increased defense, on the part of the state, of the right to organize and bargain collectively...
Major acquisitions, though, can have some negative consequences. The debt that companies incur to finance takeovers can reduce their earnings and lower their stock prices. Chevron shares fell to a twelve-month low of 30 last week, partly because of its heavy borrowings...
Some of the clubs may incur small financial losses when they convert to alternate heating and phone systems...
...reluctant to address the self-sacrifice point made by Bok because it seems so absurd, but for the sake of tho roughness I want to state my conviction that the wizards who run the Harvard corporation could mastermind a divestment plan that would incur no financial loss to the University. Bok wonders why divestment is more forceful than the university's statements against apartheid. How much force is there in Harvard's expressed abhorrence of apartheid when in its financial dealings it is supporting the apartheid regime, which has promised never to eliminate the racial discrimination it stands for? Harvard...
...will put sufficient economic pressure on the management of American companies to induce them to withdraw, since such stock will be purchased by others with no permanent economic consequence to the firm. Nor is there any evidence that the publicity engendered by sales of stock will lead companies to incur the losses by abandoning their South African operations. In fact, no American company has left the country because of the divestment actions taken by various states and municipalities over the past few years...