Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...record on nuclear waste is no better. Despite periodic official reassurances, no proven method of safe, permanent radioactive waste disposal exists. A recent report by a federal interagency task force conceded this point, claiming that no available technology can guarantee containment of waste beyond a few thousand years...
...MOST recent report to the Harvard Corporation, the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) recommended that the University continue its role as the pen pal of corporate managers, writing "forcefully worded" letters to persuade reluctant corporations to confess their sins and reform...
ANOTHER DISTURBING implication of the report is that in order to make "a fair and reasonable evaluation" the ACSR will need to collect data for several years before taking any action. Harvard should quit stalling. The evidence the ACSR did succeed in gathering is clear. The blacks who work for these corporations are clustered at the bottom of the pay scale, and are destined to stay there as long as blacks in South Africa are denied basic political and economic rights. Even if the corporations adopted and enforced equitable labor practices, the corporations would still, by their very presence...
...report outlined the employment practices and other activities of almost 45 companies and said the committee "would find it difficult not to recommend that Harvard support a resolution for withdrawal directed to a company that has not disclosed the desired information...
Hugh Calkins '45, chairman of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, said this week he did not want to speculate on how the Corporation's response to the ACSR report, the Timkin resolution and five other resolutions when it considers them this coming Monday...