Word: stockely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resolution particularly worth noting asks Mobil to recognize black trade unions. The resolution is sponsored by a group of Cornell students called the Corportate Responsibility Project, which studies its University's investment practices and buys stock in specific companies so it can introduce shareholder resolutions. Cornell's student trustees serve on the project, as well as undergraduates and law students. The money to purchase stocks comes partly from student fees...
...International Food Policy Research Institute, "the term 'food crisis' still has meaning"--in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa "where the effects of the food crisis in 1974 were most severe." But, the Institute concludes, "for the world at large" grain is abundant, has declined in price, and is being stock-piled...
Columbia University sold $2.7 million worth of stock in three banks last week because the banks would not make policy statements regarding their loans to the South African Government...
Columbia sold its stock in accordance with a statement made by Columbia's trustees last June, which called for divestiture of holdings from financial institutions that "provide new and continuing access to capital markets for the government of South Africa and respond with indifference to the prevailing repressive racial policies...
...stocks were sold without financial loss and the $2.7 million in stock represented one per cent of Columbia's total investments, she added...