Word: portfolios
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...investors attempting to ensure that the companies in which they invest display socially responsible behavior. In 1972, President Bok established an Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) to make recommendations to a subcommittee of the Harvard Corporation on how to vote Harvard's stock at annual meetings of its portfolio companies...
...seemed to get the new regime off to a good start, appointing a Cabinet containing Socialists, Communists, left-centrists, independents and only one military officer. A centrist law professor, Adelino da Palma Carlos, was chosen Premier, Socialist Soares became Foreign Minister, while Communist Boss Cunhal was named Minister Without Portfolio. The Cabinet's ability to act, however, was severely restricted by ideological differences. On one side stood those committed to democratic processes, such as the Socialists; on the other side were those, like the Communists, who were willing to employ authoritarian means to carry out the revolution. While...
Last week the wounded environmentalists lamely struggled to explain their polluted portfolios. Argued E.D.F.'s Berkeley director, Tom Graff: "We can't invest in companies doing environmentally beneficial things, companies in solar energy or scrap iron, for example. If we did, it would look like we were promoting our economic interest when we took a stand on an issue." Added Colburn Wilbur, executive secretary of the Sierra Club Foundation: "Every time we drive, fly or eat we are helping the polluters. We don't have a pure investment portfolio. I don't think we could...
...newspaper type, whose forms in turn would intermesh smoothly with the rest of the Kitchen, the house--in short, the world, Waking to that well-designed harmony, you were expected to feel one, good, and two, part of a universal humanity. Considering the social overtones of the school, portfolio contributions from German social satirists George Grosz and Max Beckmann are understandable...
...inspired attempt to bypass the popularly elected Constituent Assembly, in which the moderate forces have a majority. Portugal's outraged Socialist leader, Mario Scares-perhaps the country's best hope for Socialism with a human face -resigned from the government, in which he served as Minister Without Portfolio, declaring that his party "will never accept a dictatorship." Officially, Scares resigned to protest the fact that the government had refused to give back to the Socialists their Lisbon daily Republica, which last week resumed publication under radical workers' control. In fact, he resigned because of the program...