Word: sell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anyone with the least understanding of the retail sector knows what a sham this argument is. The Federated chain (Lazarus) and Allied Stores (Brown) both sell millions of dollars of Stevens products yearly with the help of millions of advertising dollars. Since so much of linen sales is done by mail, the relationship of advertising to Stevens products is clear: do not just passively reflect consumer preferences, they actively try to shape them...
Second, Stevens exploitation of its work force means lower wages, poor health and safety conditions, tiny pentions--in short, Stevens is cheaper because of the same factors leading to the boycott. Neither Federated nor Allied have ever shown a desire to sell Stevens goods at a price comparable to that charged by other textile companies...
Some of the causes of the trouble were specific-demands for more tenured black professors, charges that the black studies program is too meager, pressure on Dartmouth to sell its stock in corporations with holdings in South Africa. Beyond that was a sense that minority students were isolated. At an all-campus meeting, Dartmouth President John Kemeny felt compelled to assure minority students, who make up 10% of Dartmouth's 4,000 enrollment, "This college cares deeply about...
...black workers. "Harvard has declared its opposition to the South African regime," said Bok, "and has pledged itself to vote on shareholder resolutions in the manner best calculated to overcome apartheid." Calling this course "the most ethically responsible," Bok referred to legal problems facing portfolio managers who buy and sell on political rather than financial grounds. Said he: "Total divestment would almost certainly cause the university to divert millions of dollars in pursuit of a strategy that is legally questionable, widely disputed on its merits, and very likely to prove ineffective in achieving its objectives...
This uneasiness is a common response to films Paul Schrader (Blue Collar, Hardcore) has a hand in. They always begin as intriguing notions, but Schrader is willing to sell out themes, characterization, simple dramatic logic in order to serve up a socko scene or a happy ending. One guesses that here the producer and co-writer started out to make a trendy feminist tract about taking just revenge on male inadequacy, then found that Diane desperately needed humanization. Star and director obliged, but the result is an incoherent mess...