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Other, critics take a very different tack and argue that we should divest, whether or not it will have any practical effect, because it is simply immoral to hold stock in any firm that does business in South Africans. This argument would have more force if Harvard owned stock in companies doing all or most of their business in South Africans. But that is not the case. The companies form which we are asked to divest typically do less than one percent of their business in South Africans. We do not invest in these concerns because of their South Africans...
These warnings sounded like a threat to sabotage the ticket by encouraging Jackson supporters to stay home on Election Day. But the next day Jackson was taking the opposite tack, blandly insisting that "I am not suggesting a boycott of the election." In fact, he added later, he simply meant that he would keep his followers informed of his progress in winning platform concessions. Said Jackson: "If I'm negotiating for you, watch my signal...
...U.S.S.R., which are cooler than at any time since the Cuban missile crisis in 1962. "The risk we face now is that the people view the President as being locked in concrete and against negotiations with the Soviets," says a senior White House adviser. In taking a more conciliatory tack, he said, Reagan was "making sure the Democrats don't have an issue." At his press conference, Reagan insisted, "One thing let me make clear. I'm not going to play political games with this subject." White House operatives took a less noble view of the exercise...
...Shoreham are two blaring indications that it may well be time to think twice about the viability of nuclear power plants-as well as of large coal-fired power plants-on economic as well as environmental grounds. In fact, many environmental groups are now adopting just this economic tack. And a growing number of studies have shown that many of the nuclear plants now under construction have little chance of ever paying for themselves...
With the gradual recognition that participation in the Olympics does not provide an effective opportunity for political expression, nations bent on political manipulation of the Games have recently taken the opposite tack staying away are left particularly satisfied...