Word: listening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...learned something useful about the reasons however twisted, for the continuation of apartheid; I imagine the diplomat could be a similar source of information. More over, how van we judge what the government's reaction would be to sanctions to the pullout of American companies if we will not listen? Contrary to popular belief, oppose apartheid is not necessarily to oppose American companies investment: there is no monolithic liberal position on the divestiture question--arguments exits on both sides-- and to have no gauge of how South African might react hardly helps us make an information decision. Similarly the Corporation...
Hutton's Fomon last week stressed that no customer or client lost any money as a result of the illegal transactions. Even so, a brokerage house that gathered considerable eminence with its "When E.F. Hutton talks, people listen" advertising campaigns had swiftly lost some prestige...
...played host to several hundred Georgians on the South Lawn of the White House. The Reagans, with all their graceful entertaining and the President's old-shoe geniality, are said to be "very private people." The ability to tune out on many occasions, simply not to notice, not to listen, may be part of the armor that carries a candidate through the campaigning. He may have been running for President twelve years as Reagan had in 1980, four years as Carter had in 1976, and that experience may have given him at least a layer or two of insulation from...
Given the chance, the Corporation will bend, waver, and equivocate until and unless students, faculty, and alumni give them no choice but to act on the South Africa issue. When students and faculty gather in Harvard Yard, when alumni give money to the Endowment for Divestiture, the Harvard Corporation listens. When students bring the issue directly to the Corporation offices, they listen harder...
...long as Harvard activists continue to act non-violently, and take responsibility for their actions, their protests will provide the force to push Harvard farther down the road to a responsible investment policy. When there is no one to force the Harvard Corporation to listen, respectful arguments are not enough to convince them that they are wrong. We have to convince them that to do something would be less hassle than to do nothing...