Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...predetermined investment policy, and advised it on relatively useless proxy votes. Last year, however, the group took a bold, independent step. In a 35-page, thoroughly researched report, the ACSR recommended that the Corporation completely divest, and received a flat rejection. It also recommended that Harvard impose a time limit for conducting dialogue, within which it would require companies to improve their South African operations. Harvard said no again...
Last year's Commencement also slowed construction down for a few days, Levin said, because workers had to "limit their operations to things that did not make a lot of noise...
...tourists are bidding on practically everything. "The Americans are in the process of buying out the entire French patrimony," complains a haughty young dealer who is doing his best to help them. "Everything, from the 12th century to the 20th, absolutely everything. And prices? There is no limit." France has a wide variety of luxuries, and despite the new exchange rates, Parisian prices too remain pretty luxurious. As one survivor puts it, "Paris has gone from the ridiculous to the merely exorbitant." For oenophiles who have graduated from Mouton Cadet (price: $3), the Bordeaux to search for is Chateau Petrus...
Complicating matters is the existence of armed, para-governmental forces which pledge allegiance directly to Khomeini but don't always follows his lead. Khomeini has several times urged these groups to limit their anarchic activities--only to be virtually ignored...
When President Bok lent his "personal support" to Senator Kennedy's bill to limit U.S. corporations' investment in South Africa, he took the opportunity to laud Harvard's own policies on South African investment. According to Bok"...much of $635 [the Kennedy bill] parallels the policies Harvard has developed as a shareholder in firms doing business in South Africa. As does your bill, we have consistently opposed bank loans to the South African government or its subsidiary organizations...