Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sell Common Stock...
Preston N. Williams, Houghton Professor of Theology at the Divinity School, said the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) does not take the duty of advising Harvard on its stock decisions seriously enough. The ASCR reports are "glossy and misleading" and present "no hard pushing questions," Williams added...
Though the offer would come to $35 a share for stock that had been selling in the $23 to $26 range, Woolworth angrily rejected it. Chairman Edward Gibbons called the bid "grossly inadequate" and said that it raised "moral and ethical questions of the most serious nature." Woolworth has brushed up its stodgy image by posting record sales of $6.1 billion and earnings of $130 million in the last fiscal year, and it is roughly four times larger than Brascan. To help finance the takeover, Brascan would have to borrow $700 million from the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, which...
...OPEN MEETING with students last week, President Bok told his audience, "If you want to effect social change, either join a church group or buy your own stock." The Coalition for Action and Awareness, formed by representatives of ten student groups, has answered by calling for a student boycott of classes Monday, April...
There are two issues at the base of the proposed action. The more publicized issue is that of divestiture. In the past year, student and faculty have demonstrated deep and wide-ranging support of Harvard's divesting its South African stock. Over 3000 students signed petitions calling for divestiture, and they were subsequently joined by over 100 faculty members...