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However the HMC intends to rationalize investments, Harvard has already twice divested South African holdings in the 1980s and tobacco companies in the 1990s. One would think that divesting from companies operating in genocidal and terrorist sponsoring states is of more immediate concern than previous divestment campaigns...
...visits by President Bush and other members of the Administration. Even so, he had to overcome the higher public profile of his Democratic opponent, Erskine Bowles, as well as his own earlier support for free-trade agreements, which never went down well in a state with two big industries--tobacco and textiles--vulnerable to overseas competition. Burr's win flips John Edwards' Senate seat back to the Republican side of the aisle, an especially sweet win for the G.O.P.--adding a reliable vote to the fractious chamber...
...served from 1995 to 1999 in a variety of roles in the executive branch of the Clinton White House, including as deputy director of the Domestic Policy Council. In 1996, Kagan worked closely with Clinton to draft the settlement levelled against tobacco corporations in response to legislation introduced by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz...
...University divested its shares in tobacco companies following objections by students, faculty and alumni. Explaining the divestment in their annual report last year, Harvard’s Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility noted, among other reasons, “the desire not to be associated as a shareholder with companies engaged in significant sales of products that create a substantial and unjustified risk of harm to human health...
...University sold its last holdings in the tobacco industry after a committee of faculty, students and alumni recommended that the University divest itself from cigarette firms...