Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LAST SPRING, despite the largest outpouring of student political sentiment in several years, the Harvard Corporation refused to divest itself of its holdings in companies operating in South Africa. It also declined to get rid of its stock in banks lending money to the Vorster regime, or even to sponsor shareholder resolutions urging companies to withdraw. The inspiring protests of the last week in April--a week that saw crowds of up to 3500 students united in protest--may have sputtered with the advent of reading period, but the issue is far from resolved...
Carter cancelled his appearance at the White House party, honoring stock car race drivers, to work on the compromise formula. Carter faces a weekend of speechmaking and politicking, but there is no sign that he is imposing a deadline to end his talks with the Mideast leaders...
LAST SPRING, despite the largest outpouring of student political sentiment in several years, the Harvard Corporation refused to divest itself of its holdings in companies operating in South Africa. It also declined to get rid of its stock in banks lending money to the Vorster regime, or even to sponsor shareholder resolutions urging companies to withdraw. The inspiring protests of the last week in April--a week that saw crowds of up to 3500 students united in protest--may have sputtered with the advent of reading period, but the issue is far from resolved...
Texas International, which is run by a group of savvy young business school graduates headed by President Francisco Lorenzo, 38, may or may not choose to fight a Pan Am-National deal. It paid about $18 a share for most of its National stock and stands to clear more than $13 million if Pan Am's $35-per-share bid is accepted. Lorenzo and Texas International, says Seawell, stand to become "extravagantly wealthy...
...downs over the years, its labor problems (six strikes since 1964) and the trend toward deregulation and merger all have taken their toll of Maytag's enthusiasm. As he told a friend: "It's no fun running an airline any more." If he does leave National and sell his stock after a Pan Am deal, Maytag would get some consolation: his 317,000 shares would be worth about $11 million...