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Harvard owns about 310,000 shares, or roughly 1 percent, of the corporation's stock, making it the 19th largest shareholder. Also, Robert G. Stone '45, who sits on Harvard's seven-member Corporation, is on the Pittston board of directors...
Some activists say it was difficult to get students to travel to Washington so soon after last spring's march, which was the largest abortion rights tion rights demonstration ever...
EVER since Barry M. Goldwater campaigned against Social Security in 1964 and lost in a 44-state landslide, America's largest government income maintenance program has also been its most politically secure. The image of poverty-stricken, elderly pensioners--not to mention the political wrath of well-organized and politically active senior citizens--has stifled criticism from even the most conservative politicians...
...considered especially significant. For one thing, it includes both men and women, in contrast to earlier, mostly male surveys. For another, it strengthens the evidence that exercise can ward off cancer, a relationship discovered only in the past few years. And, perhaps most important, it is one of the largest studies ever done that relied on an objective measure of fitness, not just participants' descriptions of how much they exercise...
...they had to call in hazardous-waste specialists to handle the material. Total amount seized: as much as 5 1/2 tons. Only five weeks earlier, police had broken open a $6 padlock on the door of a warehouse in suburban Los Angeles and discovered 21.4 tons of cocaine, the largest U.S. cache ever grabbed. All told, authorities estimate, they will have seized 85 tons of coke this year, a 55% increase over...