Word: probed
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Last year Harvard initiated dialogues with nineteen companies to probe the extent of their active compliance with these basic anti-apartheid principles. The outcome of these dialogues, including those described in the accompanying Progress Report, is as follows. Seven companies initiated concrete steps to demonstrate compliance with the above mentioned principles. Four other companies provided the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR) enough information on their existing activities to satisfy the concerns that had led the CCSR to initiate the dialogue. Communications with three companies are still in progress, and Harvard disposed of the stock of four other companies...
Forced into a sharper awareness of their responsibilities, board members are beginning to take a more active role in corporate affairs. Directors at United Technologies in November conducted a probe that cleared Chairman Harry Gray of charges that he had bugged or wiretapped a former president of the company. The 15 directors of Union Carbide in December found themselves coping with the biggest industrial accident in history, the gas leak in Bhopal, India, that killed at least 2,500 people. The directors, meeting in an emergency four-hour session at Manhattan's Helmsley Palace Hotel, appointed four members to monitor...
...face of growing competition from cable, social-issue dramas take on a new programming significance. Explains Perry Lafferty, a senior vice president at NBC: "How do the networks fight back against cable? We can't do it by putting on more violence and sex, but we can probe the social issues that haven't been explored. The issue movie is the most effective weapon we have...
...transmit precisely spaced radio pulses; and the dusty smudges around some stars, which could be the beginnings of planetary systems much like the sun's. And because light from space, traveling at 186,000 miles a second, takes time to reach the earth, the deeper into space astronomers can probe, the farther back into the past they can see. Says Schmidt: "By looking farther out in the universe, you are paging back in the history books, as it were, to Time Zero." Once they reach that ineffable edge, the scientists may better understand where the universe came from, and where...
...week's report is only the beginning of the investigations of the bank- stock fiasco. Tunik accused no individuals by name, but called on the Knesset to appoint a full-scale commission to delve deeper into the financial disaster. Ha'aretz, a prominent Tel Aviv daily newspaper, demanded a probe "to determine who is responsible and to recommend steps to be taken against them...