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...Calkins' words had a greater symbolic importance, confirming once again just how low a priority the South Africa issue is for the Corporation. It was, for one thing, an unabashed slap at the ACSR, which has been struggling recently to erase its image of powerlessness. ACSR members wondered: just how important can our advice be, if the Corporation won't make the cursory effort to screen companies out of its portfolio that fail to meet the minimum standards of behaviour in South Africa? But even more distressing was the way Calkins, in commenting to the ACSR made clear just...
...because he cuts such a prestigious figure," said Snyder. "A slap in the face of Borge is a very important slap symbolically...
...called Domenici to ask for more time to negotiate. The conversation was heated. "No, we're too far along," Domenici replied. At Democratic insistence, Reagan's proposal for 10.7% was put to a vote. It failed in the Republican-dominated committee by 19 to 2. The final slap came when the committee passed, by a 17-to-4 majority, an increase of only 5%. That would trim up to $13 billion from the proposed $274 billion defense budget for fiscal 1984, a trim that the various services would have to adjust to, probably by stretching out weapons purchases...
...knew it was too late to call the hostess, her [Harris's] thoughts seemed to slip into a new gear, a sort of emotional overdrive, electraglide, pantransoverride. "Luckily the next lines give us a clue as to Harris's real state of mind: "She listened to the slap-slap of the windshield wipers and though about nothing whatsoever...
Given both historic injustices and current policies, the Supreme Court's decision is a particularly stinging slap in the face for the tribes. And it emphasizes the government's failure to live up to its responsibility to help create a future for the reservations, so long as the Colorado shall flow...