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Emboldened by their success, student activists asked for another open meeting of the ACSR this spring, at which they asked it to recommend to the Corporation to sell the stock of any companies in its portfolio with ties to South Africa. Their pleas apparently had some impact on the advisory...
Reagan appointees have been replaced, chiefly because of evidence that they were too receptive to the pleas of industries that may have been violating EPA regulations. The uproar over EPA prevented the Administration from pushing legislation through Congress that would have softened the Clean Air and Clean Water acts, which...
IT STARTED OUT as a simple request for a simple solution to a simple problem. And it came from the one man at the University who should be able to sidestep the bureaucratic web that usually ensnares such pleas and transforms them into complicated matters. But it was not to...
In criminal cases, Japan's courts tend to be staunchly severe on rape, gun control and narcotics violations. But the nation's 99% conviction rate in cases brought to trial is not solely due to tough application of the codes. Prosecutors rarely go before the bench unless their...
The main problem with a stretch-out of Brazilian loans is that it would be followed by pleas from other debt-laden countries, including Mexico, Poland, Argentina, Chile and Nigeria, for similar concessions. Brazil's difficulties are only part of a much larger global pattern, and the major creditor...