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...University's announcement on October 3 included plans to sell $160 million worth of investments in 8 corporations including Exxon. The other seven--Royal Dutch Petroleum/Shell, the Chevron Corporation, Ford Motor Co., Texaco, Mobil Oil, Phelps Dodge, and Schlumberger, Inc.--retain links to South Africa. Harvard's endowment still includes approximately $367 million worth of stocks and bonds in companies with South African operations...
...with its fairings and streamlines, became the formal metaphor for a host of products from milkshake machines to staplers. Fantasy piled on fantasy: Bel Geddes, one of the master industrial designers of the period, looked at airfoils and fish and came up with the finned, monocoque body of his Motor Car Number 9, 1933, which was never built but which launched a thousand period spaceships into the popular epic of the future...
...Japanese auto industry, which employs 10% of the country's work force and generates more than 20% of its exports, has driven into a similarly rough patch. For the fiscal year that ended in June, Toyota Motor, the country's largest car manufacturer, saw its profits fall 17%, to $1.6 billion. That marked Toyota's first decline in four years. For the six months that ended in September, Nissan Motor suffered a $122 million operating loss, its first since 1951. As a result, the company reassigned 2,500 employees to Nissan sales subsidiaries...
...Question 1: Should the Massachusetts Legislature be empowered to regulate or prohibit abortion?12% YES 84% NO .Question 2: Should the government give public funding to non-public schools? 24% YES 71% NO .Question 3: Should all drivers and passengers be required to wear safety belts while traveling in motor vehicles on public roads? 28% YES 67% NO .Whom would you choose to be the next governor of Massachusetts? 57% Dukakis 6% Kariotis .Whom would you choose to be Cambridge's next Congressman? 49% Kennedy 16% Abt Five percent of the undergraduate population was polled in a telephone survey conducted...
...campaign is called "Operation Be Stingy," and one of its slogans -- "I'll do it, you'll do it, and everybody will do it" -- is to be taken seriously indeed. Tokyo's Nissan Motor, in an effort to keep the prices of its exported autos low as the value of the yen rises against the U.S. dollar, has launched a major drive to cut costs...