Word: solicited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LESSON THREE. Fight dirty. In screaming, full-page newspaper ads and proxy mailings, Milstein's faction has accused the management of setting up a stock-option plan that became a "grab bag" for senior officers, and of using $600,000 of company funds to solicit proxies to re-elect itself. The company has retaliated with allegations that one of the challengers is a director of a firm in competition with GAP, that another bought his first 100 shares of stock only a few weeks ago, and that Milstein "has not been employed in a full-time job since December...
...judges' objections went beyond the newspaper's editorial content-typically, unretouched photos of men and women, singly and in enthusiastic groups, performing all manner of sexual acrobatics. The decision specifically found illegal the many ads offering dildos and other sex paraphernalia, and classified ads soliciting participants in sex acts that clearly violate New York's penal law. So Screw did away with dildo display ads and printed a notice to all of the would-be users of its classified columns that henceforth it "can no longer accept personal ads which solicit persons to break...
...remain passive in the face of substantial evidence that the company is acting in an antisocial way." Indeed, the report continues, the University "may properly, and sometimes should, attempt to influence management in directions that are considered to be socially responsible." But the University should not itself litigate or solicit proxies; it should not "join forces with other large, tax-exempt organizations in policing the conduct of business organizations." No leadership role for Harvard; no obligation to consider questions of social responsibility. That is the Austin Committee's message...
...American history when the impulse hit me. Four years of Cambrigde, Mass., can drive a person to extreme remedies. If I had really understood all that being a rookie policeman involves, I probably never would have applied in the first place, and wouldn't be in a position to solicit for more recruits like myself. But even if the job turned out to involve a little more than broad smiles and dime-store social work, it has, incidental to everything else, been a top-notch cure for what ailed...
Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science, and Herbert C. Kelman, Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, plan to solicit similar commitments from faculty members...