Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard's stock in all American companies doing business in South Africa would be a misguided response that we would eventually regret. In particular cases, of course, we may disagree so deeply with a firm's behavior that we no longer wish to be associated with it through stock ownership. As previously mentioned, we have recently sold the stock of two firms that have been intransigent in responding to our inquiries about their employment practices. (We sold the shares of another firm earlier this year on similar grounds.) We are also about to respond to a recommendation by Harvard...
...unlike any that went before. The nation is growing middle-aged and more solitary. Men and women are delaying marriage, delaying childbirth, having few or no children at all. Real income, once expected to rise as naturally as a hot-air balloon, has leveled off. For many, home ownership, once thought of as practically a constitutional right, has become a dream denied. Demography is destiny, and Americans of today, in ways both obvious and subtle, are inventing the America of tomorrow...
...room at the top. Today the combined income of a young married couple, both of whom are working, is likely to be less than what either of their fathers earned at the same age. Baby boomers are not able to afford the houses they grew up in, and home-ownership rates have fallen for the first time since World...
...founded the cosmetics distributor in 1963, became a multimillionaire after selling stock to the public in 1968. In recent years, though, she has wanted to return the firm to family ownership. "When a company is publicly held, you live in a fishbowl," said Monty Barber, a Mary Kay spokesman...
...complement your knowledge of Ukrainian, you can take Harvard's only summer offering in Turkic: TURK S-190: Ottoman Palaeography, which "involves intensive reading of the Siyaqat and Diwani Ottoman texts." Ownership of the Siyaqat and Diwani Ottoman texts is probably not a prerequisite of the course, but knowledge of both elementary Turkish and Ottoman...