Word: staying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once this revolution begins, Harvard, as a stockholder, will have the opportunity to urge corporations to stay in South Africa, to work with the new elites and to aid in the revitalization of the nation's economy and of its people. Instead, if President Bok's admonishment to the community is still followed, the Corporation will again place profits above morality. If returns on investment diminish severely, the Corporation's response will probably be exactly that being urged upon today: it will divest, or vote for resolutions calling for withdrawal. The University community may suddenly find that the sale...
...worst mistakes of the past two years. Just about the time that Jimmy Carter seemed to be developing the necessary skills of power brokering, he picked up that sappy idea for a single six-year presidential term, which he thinks would allow a President to "ignore politics" and "stay away from any sort of campaign plans and so forth...
...demonstrations and controversies break out over seemingly esoteric technical questions, the underlying question, as Cornell University's Dorothy Nelkin puts it in a paper on "Science as a Source of Political Conflict," is always the same: "Who should control crucial policy choices?" Such choices, she adds, tend to stay in the hands of those who control "the context of facts and values in which policies are shaped...
...most visible subsidiary, NBC does much to shape the public's perception of the $6.6 billion conglomerate (electronics, vehicle renting, communications, food processing, records). So far, despite NBC's long stay in the ratings cellar, the stockholders have shown restraint, probably because in the TV business even last-place networks do very nicely. Although pretax profits dropped 20% last year, NBC still earned $122.1 million...
...think that anyone expects this to be an easy race for Yale," Harvard coach Peter Raymond said last night. Seeing that its blow-them-away approach was unsuccessful with Yale, Harvard intends to resort to cunning and guile this week. The Crimson hopes to stay with Yale at a lower cadence, saving some of its great power for a final all-out sprint...