Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agree with the PALC that Harvard plays a role in the oppression of Black Angolans by the fact of its ownership of 680,000 shares of Gulf stock. Gulf is the sole concessionaire of an oil-rich region of Angola. When liberation forces overran the oil fields in 1961, Gulf was forced to stop its drilling. Big corporations take no chances. Gulf has helped finance the Portuguese army's suppression of the Angolese people because its management desires to keep this profit-making area in the hands of "reliable" white Europeans...
President Derek Bok met tonight with members of the Pan-African Liberation Committee and other groups concerned about Harvard University's ownership of Gulf Oil Co. stock...
...University's ownership of Black Rock Forest in Cornwall, N.Y., part of which is needed by Consolidated Edison for a widely disputed power project, has thrust it into the uncommon position of being involved in an ecological crisis not of its own making. And it would seem that this is one situation which the University will eventually be forced to face...
...been known for leaving an entrepreneur free to decide prices for his products and set wages for his workers, free to grow and prosper-and free to go bankrupt if he failed. Historically, the U.S. Government has often done much to strengthen those twin pillars of free enterprise, private ownership and unfettered competition. Americans have grown so accustomed to living under free enterprise that they rarely even think in terms of class struggles, expropriation, the proletariat or other concepts that mark national debate elsewhere...
...saddened by the confusion arising from your article of February 11, concerning 1306 Mass. Ave. Our specific purpose in contacting Harvard was to put an end to the rumors and allegations concerning the ownership of the building, and as representatives of the tenants, to define precisely the nature of our relationship with the University. These attempts were prompted by the slow, unsatisfactory response by the management of the building to a knifing attack on a tenant several weeks ago. During discussions with R.M. Bradley and Co., managers of the building, concerning our pleas for immediate installation of the security features...