Word: sit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Engelhard issue reads. "For ten years Charles Engelhard was the single largest investor in South Africa. He amassed a quarter-billion dollar fortune in the South African gold mines, where on average three black miners die every shift. Not an absentee investor, he was the only foreigner to sit on two labor recruitment boards for the mines...
...unarmed blacks, Engelhard organized the American bank loans which salvaged the South African economy. He personally owned 23 South African corporations (see Africa Today and Forbes). Engelhard served as an administrator of the migrant labor system which brutally separates black families. He was the only foreigner ever top sit on the boards of the Witwatersrand Native Labor Association and the Native Recruiting Agency, two government agencies which recruit cheap African labor to work in the mines (see Ruth First, The South African Connection...
Moscone, smiling and in shirtsleeves, came out to greet White. Copertini asked if the mayor wanted anyone to sit in on the meeting, as he usually did with visitors. He laughed and said, "No, I'll see him alone." The mayor then led White through his formal office and into a cozier rear sitting room. "When he wants a heart-to-heart with somebody, the back office is a more informal setting," Wax later explained. "He liked to sit on the couch...
...college shut down the campus snack bar, a few faculty offices, and the art gallery in response to the sit-in in the social center...
...resolution: Bailey recommends Harvard students insist an agreement be hammered out in writing, before Brustein takes over the Loeb. Included in the agreement should be a guarantee that Brustein will sit down in person one or two times a year with the HRDC to negotiate. An advisory board, such as the present faculty standing committee on drama, should be retained as a body to which they can appeal. The Dramat has a similar advisory board made up of faculty and administrators. Yale President Giamatti sat on the board at one time. The board could not overrule the drama school administration...