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...Pax World Fund of Portsmouth, N.H., avoids companies that make weapons, nuclear power equipment, liquor or tobacco products, or that have poor environmental or equal-opportunity records. Pax World invests in companies that do business in South Africa only if they are providers of food or medical supplies. Other similar social-investment firms include New Alternatives in Great Neck, N.Y., and the Bethesda, Md.-based Calvert Group, which offers both stock-and-bond and money-market funds. New York City's Dreyfus, one of the largest and most diversified of the general mutual-fund companies, operates a social-investment fund...
Assets of the six largest social-investment funds have grown from $102 million in 1982 to $450 million this year, while the ranks of their investors have swelled from 22,000 to 66,000. The assets of the Pax World Fund, for example, climbed during that period from $7 million to $50.2 million, and the Calvert funds grew from $2.5 million to $146 million...
...green line" separating the Christian eastern part of the city from the predominantly Muslim west. Late in the week, heavier machine-gun and rocket duels erupted between Christian and Muslim militiamen, killing two people and wounding at least 27 others. But in the early stages of the uneasy Pax Syriana imposed two weeks ago by Syrian President Hafez Assad, the main participants in the Lebanese tragedy were trying to shift most of their efforts from shooting to squabbling over the political future of their battered nation. Even under Assad's tutelage, the question was whether the Lebanese could reach...
Your double-headed Man of the Year is well chosen. Since both are reasonable men, not madmen in the Khomeini and Gaddafi image, no bombs have been dropped. After a century of Pax Britannica and a short period of Pax Americana, the world has entered the phase of Pax Atomica. The only danger is the so-called peace movement in the West, which imperils the balance of power. This can lead to nuclear war or to nuclear blackmail and surrender of the West. Andropov's side will not relinquish its strength...
...harmless labels to the most hideous practices, most governments sooner or later find euphemism an indispensable device. "Pacification" has become a popular term for war ("War is peace," as the Ministry of Truth says in Nineteen Eighty-Four), but the Romans meant much the same thing by the term Pax Romana. "Where they make a desert, they call it peace," protested an English nobleman quoted in Tacitus. Viet Nam brought us new words for the old realities: soldiers "wasted" the enemy, some "fragged" their own officers, bombers provided "close air support." Even the CIA contributed a verbal novelty: "termination with...