Word: talismanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Approximately 30 students from area schools came out to demand that professors stop TIAA-CREF, a financial corporation which manages the pensions of professors at many colleges, from investing in Talisman Energy, an oil company that has been charged with supporting slavery and genocide in the North African country...
TIAA-CREF, which manages pension funds for Harvard, Tufts and Boston University, holds over 300,000 shares in Talisman, according to the AASG...
...only is [divestment] a moral imperative, it also makes business sense," Jacobs said, pointing to a drop of over 25 percent in Talisman's stock price over the last few months...
...American Samoa and a classic turn as dean of Caribbean medical school, where students pioneered the transplant of a liberal heart into a conservative body (doctors were sure it was liberal heart because the body had been pulled from a Volvo). I often turn to Duke, my Trudeau talisman, for inspiration when writing papers, studying Greek or just seeking the meaning of life. For in my opinion, the answers to all the big questions lie in the panels of Doonesbury...
...road record, we all immediately decide that this is not a good thing. We must find his lucky charm. As Daniel's head continues to bob up and down, and the car continues to horizontally vacillate across the breadth of the highway, we hit the dirt. Searching for his talisman, we sift through the pile of traffic citations at our feet. Then it occurs...