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...draft circulating inside the department calls for an outright ban on many forms on institutional expansion and strict permit procedures for almost every type of growth...
...under Polish law were therefore ineligible for membership in a true union with the right of collective bargaining. By holding out the vague offer of association status, however, the judges hoped to stave off the widespread strikes and protests that had been threatened in the event of an outright rejection. Though there was disappointed grumbling outside the court building, Walesa helped keep tempers cool by calling the verdict "a tie, but one that gives us a great deal." He added: "We must now take time for a respite, for organization and for an end to strikes...
...effective overseas. In the 1950s and '60s, U.S. aid was largely a matter of bilateral, oneway gifts. Such assistance has too often proved harmful to the LDCs: it discourages economic innovation and national self-esteem while feeding corruption and resentment on the part of the recipient. Some outright government-to-government grant assistance will still be necessary. The real emphasis, however, should now be on private-sector investment by multinational corporations and on highly conditional, firmly supervised loans, channeled through such international financial institutions as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and various regional development banks...
When Harvard's Corporation released its policy on South Africa in April 1978 it carefully avoided outright prohibitions on investing in companies doing business in South Africa, recommending instead, and to the anger of many students, a case-by-case review. But the corporation noted an exception to the case-by-case method: "...loans to the South African government and state-owned corporations constitute a more direct support of apartheid," the report stated...
...torn country: It arrested almost all University deans and professors, rounded up every student suspected of sympathizing with the leftist guerrillas and carted them off to detention centers. As anyone familiar with the policies of Duarte's regime knows, many of these professors and students were undoubtably murdered outright; others are being tortured...