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...Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC), a Washington-based group that examines ethical implications of corporate investment, points out, U.S. subsidiaries in South Africa provide important strategic inputs to the South African government--for instance, they supply almost half the market for computers; a third of the country's motor vehicles; and over two-fifths of its petroleum. In these sectors and others, U.S. companies provide important military inputs and form the basis for much of the white-controlled apartheid economy. The companies provide crucial contacts with world markets, needed foreign exchange, tax revenue, and sophisticated technologies...
Prior to this year, students at the Quad parked their cars on the streets around Radcliffe, despite a University regulation that "undergraduates living in a dormitory and residents of any University housing, may not park motor vehicles on any Cambridge street between the hours...
...parking office is also instituting a computer system that will log information on all cars and drivers registered with the University. Besides record-keeping help, the computer will provide an easy way for parking officials to get information through the Department of Motor Vehicles in any state so the University can enforce fines for cars not registered at Harvard but parked illegally. Students who register their cars with Harvard are charged on their term bill if they fail to pay parking tickets; but prior to the computer installation, collecting from unregistered cars was more difficult...
...invoked to justify a major political overhaul, it becomes important to understand the limits and implications of the concept. Culture is the sensuous expression of a people; it is an amalgam of historically accumulated arts and skills which allows people to express and develop their creativity. The crucial motor of culture is activity, for it is only through applying oneself that one can learn, and it is only through doing that one can express...
...language barrier separating French civil servants from the English corporate world, Quebec's bureaucrats are less immediately sensitive to conservative business influence than are most other bureaucracies. The consequence of rapidly creating a nationalist and non-business oriented civil service is that the bureaucracy itself is a powerful motor force for Quebec's independence...