Word: recommender
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Solidarity Committee (SASC), founded in November of that year SASC managed to organize a tenuous coalition of disparate minority and political groups into the United Front, and led them through a series of mass rallies and demonstrations that culminated just before reading period. SASC called on the ACSR to recommend to the Corporation that it sell stocks in banks making loans to the South African government, support shareholder resolutions calling for complete corporate withdrawal, and issue a clear, public statement on its investment policies...
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 body. For the first time ever, the ACSR voted on a resolution recommending complete divestiture, and narrowly defeated it by a vote of 6 to 5, with one abstention. The abstaining member then changed his vote, bringing it to an even 6 to 6 split. There solution did not pass...
...precisely to cope with doubts such as those expressed in Congress that Reagan two weeks ago appointed a twelve-man commission headed by former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. The commission's charter is to study all aspects of Central American policy and recommend a long-range plan judged capable of winning bipartisan support. But the momentum of events may not wait for the commission's report, and much of that momentum has been spurred by the Administration itself. Visiting Washington last week to get the commission organized, Kissinger announced plans to conduct a study so comprehensive that its conclusions...
...seat belts and an oxygen mask cord, the would-be sky pirate, a former political prisoner in Cuba named Rodolfo Bueno Cruz, was arrested upon arrival in Miami. "I don't criticize it," said FBI Agent Jim Freeman of the risky rescue, "but I don't recommend it for everyone...
...weighty conflicts, family elders often still handle matters like inheritance. Local police stations actively work to resolve neighborhood and domestic disputes (see box). The system of chotei (mediation) handles serious confrontations like divorce by having litigants and their lawyers meet with court-appointed masters who hear both sides and recommend a settlement...