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Harvard owns about 310,000 shares, or roughly 1 percent, of the corporation's stock, making it the 19th largest shareholder. Also, Robert G. Stone '45, who sits on Harvard's seven-member Corporation, is on the Pittston board of directors...

Author: By H. JACQUELINE Suk, | Title: Council Backs Pittston Strikers | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...Higher taxes are a prescription for more disaster, they are a prescription for sending an economy that is showing signs of softness into a real tailspin," Pierce said. "We will go back to a time when we will have 8, 10 or 12 percent unemployment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Passes State Deficit Bill | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

That program is the corporate tax deduction for business entertainment, which subsidizes the fabled "threemartini lunches." Although it isn't ordinarily considered a welfare program, the travel and entertainment ("T and E") deduction works exactly like one. Corporations can deduct 80 percent of the cost of their executives' expense account lunches (and other entertainment expenses) from their taxable income...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Wall Street's Food Stamps | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

Bowman says that college-age women are particularly interested in abortion issues since about 80 percent of the abortions in this country are performed on women aged between...

Author: By Jennifer L. Greenstein, | Title: Pro-Choice: Rallying Campus Support | 11/18/1989 | See Source »

Following the Money: President Derek C. Bok knows where to go to find his big financial backers. He held his annual dinner for $10,000-plus contributors yesterday at the Harvard Club of New York, where fundraisers say more than 40 percent of the University's donations originate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 11/18/1989 | See Source »

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