Word: leone
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...Sullivan principles, formulated in 1972 by the Rev. Leon Sullivan, a member of the Board of Directors at General Motors, are a minimum set of ethical standards for companies operating in South Africa...
...Cesaire grew up with the French prose classics and the poetry of Victor Hugo. His family had middle-class aspirations and so emphasized the value of French culture that Creole never became a viable means of expression for Cesaire. Sent to study in Paris at age 18, he met Leon Damas and Leopold Senghor and began to formulate his theory of negritude...
Nevertheless, government jobs are available Leon Konarsky, coordinator of Placement Programs at UMass Boston, notes that the internal Revenue Service is a particularly good employer for students interested in accounting or business related work Konarsky also points out that the current reorganization effort at the Boston IRS office has created an increased demand for students to help there Work, mostly clerical can also be found in such government office as the civilian personnel offices of the U.S. Army, the Department of Health of Labor and National Parks Service...
...these developments have brought to the fore controversy surrounding the principles, which were first developed in 1977 and since refined by the Rev. Leon Sullivan, a Philadelphia minister and board member of the GM company. The general intent behind the principles is to help Black South Africans economically by making sure companies follow certain fair-labor practices...
Shaken by skidding prices and economic misgivings, many investors are wondering whether the bull market, which saw the Dow Jones industrial average go from 776.92 on Aug. 12,1982, to 1287.20 on Nov. 29,1983, has run its course. Last week the Dow Jones closed at 1148.87. Says Leon Cooperman, chairman of the investment-policy committee for the Wall Street firm of Goldman, Sachs and a guest at last week's meeting of the TIME Board of Economists: "Unless we deal with the budget deficit and can get lower interest rates, the odds are that the bull market...