Word: indirection
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Undergraduate Council (UC) urged Harvard to further divest from companies with ties to the Sudanese government in an uncontested vote last night. The University has in recent years ended its direct investments in two Chinese oil companies that do business in Sudan, but still holds indirect investments in these companies and others through index funds managed by Barclays, a British bank. Representatives of the Harvard Darfur Action Group (HDAG) were on hand to present yesterday’s legislation, which included both a position paper and a resolution urging the administrators of Harvard’s endowment to adhere...
...month. The Secretary of State hopes that regular contact between the two men will develop sufficient trust to allow them to broach discussions over the shape of a two-state solution to the conflict. But there are no peace negotiations on the immediate agenda. Indeed, the most intense - if indirect - bargaining under way right now involves Hamas and Israel, over the list of the Palestinian prisoners Israel will be required to release in exchange for the return of Corporal Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier seized last summer on the Israeli side of the Gaza border. Israel is balking at Hamas...
...have yet another divestment campaign? Didn’t Harvard divest from Sudan already?” The answer is not yet. Harvard has only divested its direct holdings in two Chinese oil companies: Petrochina and Sinopec. The focus of our campaign, however, is not Harvard’s indirect holdings in these companies. While we do want Harvard to divest from stocks, exchange traded funds, index funds, and other financial holdings when reasonable alternatives exist, the primary focus of our campaign is that Harvard divest from the worst offenders operating in the Sudan...
Leverett: “Well rounded meals...like doughnuts” “Getting in the gym and working on your fitness” “A modest proposal” “An indirect indicator for differential provisioning in socially stratified societies?...
...from which it had allegedly divested because of their involvement in Sudan, the student divestment movement has been launched anew. Apparently, the Corporation’s April 2005 decision to divest from directly-held stock in PetroChina, one such company, did not translate into selling off “indirect holdings,” such as mutual funds, which hold stock in the company. While we agree with student activists that Harvard should drop more of this indirectly-held stock, we do not support the creation of a blanket, preemptive policy that would force Harvard to divest if certain criteria...