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...technical terms and calls for tough penalties: for example, $5,000 fines and up to a year in jail for hackers who crack security codes just for the fun of it, triple damages for persons found guilty of malicious tampering. The California legislature is considering a bill that would strengthen its pioneering computer-crime law, enacted in 1979, by stiffening penalties for browsing through a computer system without permission...
...reasonable disclosure of information that is not already available and that is necessary in order for shareholders to exercise judgment with regard to the company's practices; c) call for withdrawal of the company entirely from South Africa, but only in cases where its presence clearly does more to strengthen apartheid than to ameliorate it or where the company is intransigent over a substantial period of time with regard to the implementation of ethical employment practices...
...Harvard should, in cooperation if possible with sister institutions and the administrators of the Sullivan Principles, expand the scope and strengthen the content of the existing principles defining the ethical responsibilities of companies with South African operations in relation to employment conditions and other opportunities enjoyed by non-white employees and their families. Recently the ACSR and the CCSR endorsed several shareholder proposals calling on U.S. companies with South African operations to embrace goals recently enunciated by Bishop Desmond Tutu. Some of these goals go beyond the Sullivan Principles and the principles of socially responsible behavior adopted by Harvard...
...cooperation with other universities strengthen the so-called Sullivan Principles, a set of minimum fair labor standards for companies operating in South Africa...
...purchase, to take effect in June, is part of a recent merger mania by Macmillan (1983 sales: $430.5 million), whose businesses include the Katharine Gibbs secretarial schools and the Berlitz language instruction programs. Macmillan last year acquired six companies, including three educational publishers. The latest takeover will strengthen Macmillan in such areas as children's books, reference works and college texts...