Word: todivest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This new set of questions has generated adifferent type of response from those who urgedivestment from South Africa. For example, insteadof shareholder resolutions urging companies todivest of South Africa-related holdings, thesestatements are more and more often demanding anend to all economic ties with the country...
...Harvard philosophy is to continue todivest from companies doing more harm than good[in South Africa]," Liebman says...
...some other universities have chosen todivest completely from companies which haveholdings in South Africa. Columbia University, forinstance, "does not invest in any companies whichhave facilities in South Africa," says Roberta M.Weil, the school's vice president for investments...
Since then, the body has denounced a Board ofOverseers plan to tighten its electionrequirements and created a special committee tostep up council pressure on the University todivest from South Africa-related companies...