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...both the Tutu Principles and the Sullivan Principles. Together with the University's standard guidelines for operations in South Africa, these principles require companies to: do less than 50 percent of their business in the country; pay laborers equally for equal work, institute a minimum wage; end workplace segregation; invest "massively" in education reforms and in community development; actively oppose the "influx control laws," which control the freedom of non-whites to move about the country and represent the cornerstone of apartheid; and (in the near future) to discontinue producing hardware or supplying any capital whatsoever which might directly...
THERE ARE MANY OTHER ways to shape the future of Harvard's faculty and attract talented professors to Cambridge. We urge the University to invest its time-and efforts elsewhere: in securing endowed chairs, state-of-the-art laboratories and other resources to attract faculty rather than to infringe upon the community. Hiring a faculty real estate consuitant is also an excellent way of solving professors housing woes--a plan of action the University is already pursuing...
...important that any revenue increase be achieved with as little damage to economic incentives and long-term growth as possible. That means that the current incentives to save and to invest should be preserved and strengthened. It also means that further increases in already high tax rates should be avoided...
Japan's leaders recognize the need to open up their economy to more foreign goods. The process, though, will be gradual. In the meantime, the Japanese will continue to accumulate trade surpluses and scout around the world for ways to invest their treasure trove both productively and profitably...
...Japanese invest abroad, more and more U.S. businessmen will find themselves doing deals with them. The corporate style that works for Americans at home may not go over with their new colleagues or competitors. Neff and many other Boston-area executives are turning to Ikuko Atsumi, 43, a Japanese poet and feminist who has lived in the U.S. since 1981. She is president of the New England Japanese Center, which teaches often bewildered Americans how to do business with her countrymen. Says Atsumi: "To succeed in Japan, the fastest shortcut is to learn Japanese culture...