Word: statement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resolutions and ballots appear in the corporation's proxy statement mailed to all the shareholders. Resolutions which the management does not support are almost always defeated by substantial majorities, because many, if not most, shareholders do not bother to vote at all. Abstentions are counted as votes with management...
...responsibility of seeing that Harvard invests its money and votes its proxies. Stevens says "The very fact that this is a public community process is already a position by the Corporation on behalf of its responsibility as a shareholder." But whether the process is a strong enough statement of Harvard's social responsibility is a matter of controversy, especially when it comes to the question of investments in corporations doing business in South Africa...
...removes the iron armor of racial identity, all that one finds beneath is man: puny yet powerful; fragile yet fecund; humble yet humane. Man in all of his wonderous and multifarious beauty. Afro-American man shares in this brotherhood of man and so it is that through a statement of our images, metaphors, symbols, and the subtle nuances that have been the province of literature from time immemorial we express the peculiar and distinctive nuances of our humanity...
...teach Afro-American Literature because it makes a profound statement about our people and our heritage as it makes itself manifest in historical time...
...flick recently became available in import. The album raises the intriguing question of whether a defunct band can produce the best rock and roll of the year; the answer, despite the carping of the British press, is yes. The Great Rock and Roll Swindle gives us the most complete statement yet of the punk sensibility...