Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uses its tax dollars to underwrite academic research that might charitably be described as frivolous. Among recipients of such largesse is Sociologist Pierre van den Berghe of the University of Washington, who used part of a $97,000 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to underwrite a report by his researcher, George Primov, titled, "The Peruvian Brothel as Sexual Dispensary and Social Arena...
...report released Thursday, the Corporation rejected student demands to divest its holdings in banks lending money to the apartheid government, and rejected demands that Harvard support all shareholder resolutions calling on corporations to withdraw operations from South Africa...
During the half-hour interview, Bok reiterated the position on divestiture outlined by the Corporation in its report. He said although it would cost the University a "considerable amount of money" to divest itself of holdings in corporations doing business in South Africa, the potential loss is not the only reason the Corporation is opposed to immediate divestiture...
...report the Corporation also announced it would review the role of individual corporations in South Africa before deciding how to vote on shareholder resolutions demanding that the corporations withdraw from South Africa...
According to Jhirad, solar energy could provide 100 per cent of U.S. energy needs within 25 years. His position received support from a recent report of the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, which concluded that electricity from one-site solar systems could be cost-competitive with that from utilities "within ten to 15 years...