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Some of the clubs may incur small financial losses when they convert to alternate heating and phone systems...

Author: By Melissa I. Weissberg, | Title: College, Final Clubs Agree To Sever All of Their Ties | 12/11/1984 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Jessica Neuwirth, | Title: Investing in Apartheid | 10/20/1984 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Problem of Divestment | 10/2/1984 | See Source »

...foreclosing the privileges of the more than 99% of teen-agers who never get involved in alcohol-related accidents is unfair. Says Gene Adams, director of legislative affairs for Florida Governor Robert Graham: "You are a legal adult at 18 in Florida for all other purposes. You can marry, incur debts, sign contracts, vote. You should have the right to drink, especially in the home you bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rewriting a Rite of Passage | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

Puppy Love The tail about Iceland's poor dogs [Feb. 6] was enough to incur my wrath. It you want to terrier hair out, if you mutts know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 27, 1984 | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

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