Word: respectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...letter, Bok restates the contentions of his first open letter by saying "total divestment would undermine the willingness of outside groups to respect the academic independence of the University," and result in financial losses that could "run into millions of dollars...
...ACSR also decided that in the case of South Africa, the corporations themselves would have to prove their good citizenship. The ACSR listed a series of guidelines that companies choosing to remain in South Africa should follow in order to "ameliorate the effects of apartheid with respect to their own employees, even where such action impinges on profitability." The guidelines are based on principles first proposed in 1977 by Rev. Leon Sullivan, a director of General Motors Corporation, and would require a company to end discriminatory practices in employment and working conditions...
...women's protest, then, a short-lived eruption, a minor blip in the revolution? No. Many who protested against the chador respect Khomeini, are devout Muslims and believers in an Islamic state, and above all fear being separated from the revolution and divided among themselves (as they have been traditionally). But for them the anti-Shah revolution and the outbreak against the new regime's edicts proved an experience that, in the West, would be called consciousness raising. "We women don't yet know who we are," says Lily Mostafavi, a government worker. But, she adds...
...Research should be limited to human embryos in the first 14 days of development after fertilization, the time when implantation into the womb is completed in a normal pregnancy. For many Roman Catholics, and others, the embryo deserves respect as a new human life from the time of fertilization. Catholicism has also opposed IVF because of Pope Pius XII's arguments against all unnatural methods of conception...
...Communist Poland, John Paul pleads for freedom of conscience. "It is difficult to accept ... a position that gives only atheism the right of citizenship in public and social life, while believers are ... barely tolerated or ... deprived of the rights of citizenship." In a dramatic appeal to rulers, he demands respect for religious liberty: "No privilege is asked for, but only respect for an elementary right...