Word: letterings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Bok released a letter yesterday saying the total divestiture of Harvard's South Africa-related holdings probably would not promote the end of apartheid but would undermine Harvard's financial stability and academic independence...
Pusey echoed that sentiment in a letter to then-Dean John T. Dunlop, chairman of the University Committee on Governance, saying the Corporation would not make investments that support "activities whose primary import is contrary to fundamental and widely shared ethical principles." Furthermore, he said, in deciding on investments the University would consider whether a company "acts as a good citizen in the conduct of its business...
...Yates case has been on my mind for some time now, and it seems to me that the article and letters published in The Crimson so far have ignored an important issue. Mr. Lowenstein, for example, says in a March 14 letter, "...the regulation of an act which would affect only the individual involved, such as mountain climbing, is ridiculous...
Several systems of transliteration to relate Chinese script to the 26-letter Roman alphabet have been used in the U.S., Egan said, but until recently Wade-Giles was the commonly accepted system...
...adjusted for the effect of inflation on depreciation and inventories, rose only 10.9% from the fourth quarter of '78. Meanwhile, New York City's Citibank separately calculated that real earnings from operations over the whole year rose only 2½%. Said the bank's Monthly Economic Letter: "Despite glowing earnings reports, many U.S. corporations are scrambling desperately to hold even against the inroads of inflation...