Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like its European counterparts, Newbury Street offers a number of sidwalk cafes. Cafe Florian, at 85 Newbury, is a rather casual place to eat elegant French food. The interior of the 19-table restaurant is simple, but a little to bright to be called intimate...
...thinking about thus issue, which has for me, and I think for a number of other people been the most difficult issue to deal with, there are many facts and observations that one makes and then cogitates about. I would like simply to draw your attention to a few of them that seemed to me particularly relevant...
...obey those instructions. Polaroid found out about it and severed its connection completely with South Africa, and I think appropriately. Several American banks which in the past have made loans to the South African government have ceased to make those loans and so announced it publically; a number of others have not made such public announcements but in fact have stopped making those loans. Those loans are, in the view of the Harvard Corporation and the ACSR, direct support--or direct enough support--of the apartheid system to be stopped, for us to want to stop them...
Finally, a very recent example, the Burroughs Corporation, which had in the past been selling computers to the government, was asked in the form of a shareholder resolution from a number of church groups to stop selling anything to the government, and they responded by saying they would not invest further in South Africa at all, and they would not knowingly sell either products or sales and service to any organization that was involved in oppressive work...
...must say, just as an aside, that that example, and a number of others that have occurred this spring, has caused me to modify to some extent my assessment of the power of the responsibly generated shareholder resolution. One can find a number of examples of these in the IRRC documents that are available to everybody in Lamont Library, at least I hope they are--someone claimed at the CHUL meeting yesterday that they weren...