Word: subverts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Corporation's planned revisions in its shareholder guidelines represent another first: for the first time, Harvard's objective will be to undermine the South African police state--to subvert apartheid as a legal, governmental institution--and not merely to ameliorate the material conditions of Black South Africans in the workplace...
...Administration claimed that an emergency had indeed arisen from Nicaragua's "aggressive activities in Central America." It laid out a litany of accusations to back up the contention. Among them: "Nicaragua's continuing efforts to subvert its neighbors, its rapid and destabilizing military buildup, its close military and security ties to Cuba and the Soviet Union and its imposition of Communist totalitarian internal rule." The embargo would end, said Speakes, when the Sandinistas took "concrete steps" to moderate their behavior...
...realize it or not, are astride the twilight zone of sentiment, sentimentality, and naked-nipple camp. With a synthesizer beat that commands the dance floor, tender melodies that call for industrial-sized Dramamine, and pretty-boy vocals that would do credit to the Krokodiloes. Depeche Mode somehow manages to subvert the teen-age romantic schlock slot they ought to fit so well...
...moral outrage in middle age measures the degree of early infatuation and ultimate disappointment. With the passion of a lover betrayed, Schickel protests that celebrities in the arts "are used to simplify complex matters of the mind and spirit." We look at the face and ignore the work. Celebrities "subvert rationalism in politics." We neglect the issues and vote for the image most skillfully packaged on TV. In every department of life, celebrities are a "corruption," Schickel's label for the shallowness and glitz of late 20th century civilization. With considerable reason, he blames celebrities and the cameras without which...
...obviously destined to leave apartheid unaltered that one wonders whether they were not designed to do just that. But there is a far more serious consideration than the potential efficacy, or lack thereof, of the "new initiatives." The Sullivan Principles and Harvard's proposals encourage foreign nationals to subvert, and to persuade others to subvert, the domestic policies of a sovereign nation in which they live as guests. This is an intolerable violation of international business ethics, and the South African government is justifiably indignant at what it views as gratuitous interference in its internal affairs. If we indeed agree...