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...what the Corporation would want us to do," ACSR Faculty Representative Noel McGinn said yesterday. He added that the statement will focus on the need to use more than financial considerations alone when deciding whether to invest in a company that does business in the apartheid nation...
...while tilting at the bold new questions of the eighties and beyond. Hart leaves the old queries to faster. His economic program levels micro solutions helping individual workers and individual flame--an what are essentially macro problems. Freeing up investment funds and giving workers more skills can only work so far. Without an underlying boost in aggregate demand, few companies will care to invest those funds, and without an overall increase in job openings, the most intricate job training will not place the unemployed...
...statements will address "the issue of ethical constraints on decisions to invest in companies that operates in South Africa," Cedarbaum said, adding that the committee may vote on the statement next week...
...CORPORATION SUBCOMMITTEE that votes on shareholder resolutions last week took a decisive step backwards. In a discussion with the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), which advises the Corporation on investment ethics, the subcommittee stated that Harvard need not consider a company's moral standing before deciding to invest in a company--not even to the point of checking whether the company has signed minimum-labor guidelines. A stock only takes on moral dimensions, the committee would have us believe, after it has been bought--just in time to set in motion the lengthy bureaucratic struggles the ACSR must...
...prior to the war the subject of the Falklands had provoked little if any interest, and other than a small but vociferous group of supporters in Parliament the majority of the population remained ignorant of the existence of the islands. The British, facing austerity at home, were unprepared to invest the necessary money to develop the islands, yet apparently unable to make a serious effort to divest themselves of the territory. In the meantime they stalled negotiations with the Argentinians...