Word: loans
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Unfortunately, this is almost the opposite of the truth. In 1982 the Harvard Corporation proposed investment guidelines under which Harvard would encourage banks to loan money to the South African government for "humanitarian" purposes. Only massive community protest, and a unanimous vote of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR, forced the Corporation to back down...
...place. What about the inevitable post-nuclear invasion of Soviet troops? Since Soviet leader Yuri Andropov never responded to his invitation to visit Cherry Drive and sign a treaty, Petty decides to fortify his house and garden against such an invasion. But the bank promptly denies the pair a loan to purchase the necessary hardware, forcing Petty and Roger to launch a fundraising drive for their tanks and aircraft. They ask Prince Charles to appear at a teatime piano concert featuring one of their neighbors: he politely declines. They plan a "Bring-and-Buy" sale and ask Prime Minister Margaret...
NGUYEN NGOC LOAN...
...Viet Cong prisoner stood with his hands tied behind his back. General Loan, director of South Viet Nam's national police, coldly raised a revolver to the man's head and fired. The picture of that summary execution during the 1968 Tet offensive (see page 22) horrified Western audiences. The photographer, Eddie Adams, learned later that the prisoner had slaughtered a police major who was a friend of Loan's, as well as the officer's wife and their six children. "I just took the picture. And all of a sudden I destroy a guy's life," Adams said...
...last week more than two dozen Ohio thrifts had reopened, backed now by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, a federal agency that guarantees deposits up to $100,000. The remaining privately insured S and Ls were allowing customers to withdraw up to $750. Depositors said they had confidence in their thrifts, and there was little sense of panic. Nonetheless, at least 200 jittery customers lined up to make withdrawals last Thursday from Cincinnati's Oakmont Savings and Loan, where there had been reports that some of the thrift's officers had illegally taken money from their accounts...