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...first is by boycotting the Class gift, and by refraining from giving any money to this University, until it changes its investment policies. Many in the past few years have refused to donate money to an institution that will use it to invest indirectly in apartheid; to a University as interested in donations as Harvard, this kind of pressure is likely to be extremely effective. If students feel they must give money somewhere this spring, they would be serving a more honorable purpose by aiding the Central American refugee fund administered by the American Friends Services Committee, as The Harvard/Radcliffe...
...sold the Texas Pacific Oil Co., which Seagram had bought in 1963 for $256 million, to the Sun Co., for $2.3 billion. Bronfman's nest egg has since grown to a stunning $3 billion through shrewd asset management, and he is now leisurely looking for a place to invest the money. Says he: "It's a little like matchmaking. There are a lot of willing brides, but the boy has still to make up his mind...
...have argued publicly that students spend only four years at this University and hence are ill-suited to make decisions that will last beyond their tenure, and that administrators are smarter, and hence should be given all authority. The second contention would seem to answer itself--administrators who can invest in apartheid, or refuse to recognize that gay students here are victims of discrimination, for example, are surely not omniscient. And the first argument is just as weak--while individual students stay here only a few years, there will always, we hope, be students at Harvard. Their interests should...
...seamless whole that cannot be substantially altered without its effectiveness being ruined. As they see it, only Reagan's across-the-board tax cuts, and the assurance that they will continue into the future, will give all sectors of the population the incentive to work, save and invest. Says Assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts: "You simply don't generate sufficient long-term confidence with any one-year plan. What you're saying is that you don't really believe in cutting taxes or in the plan itself. Business won't invest on that basis...
Randy hesitates when asked about the amount of commitment he expects from his swimmers: "I ask that they give a lot, but I think that I demand more from myself in terms of workouts I offer and the time that I invest in the program...