Word: sell
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...past four years, Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA) has put forward a slate of candidates for the 30-member governing board in an effort to force the University to sell its $163.8 million in South Africa-related investments...
...University keeps its proxy voting policiesseparate from its investing policies, according toLiebman. "Although we'll vote in favor [of totaldivestment], we won't sell our stock," he says...
...ever launched by a mass- circulation magazine. Regionalism's promoter was a small-time Kansas-born art dealer named Maynard Walker, who sensed that the resentments of America, battered by the Depression and bitterly suspicious of the East, could be harnessed in the field of art. Cultural populism would sell, he demonstrated, provided it were shown welling up from the undefiled American heartland...
...early on as a creator of jobs as much as a purveyor of entertainment. The centerpiece of the Smithsonian's exhibit is a display of old TV sets -- clunky wooden boxes with tiny, anemic-looking screens. But perhaps more significant is a selection of print advertisements that tried to sell Americans on this strange new gizmo...
Sotheby's removed the tusks from the market by buying them from the unidentified owner, and will donate them to a museum. "We will never again sell elephant tusks," said Michael Ainslie, president of Sotheby's. "We would hope it sets an example." Environmental groups hope so as well. The U.S. imports about $30 million worth of ivory annually. Much of it is illegally harvested in a slaughter that each year wipes out nearly 100,000 of Africa's elephants, reducing their current numbers to as few as 600,000. To cut demand, the African Wildlife Foundation, a Washington-based...