Word: votes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like Harvard's Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, the Radcliffe group will examine and recommend vote on proxy statements the college receives from corporations in its $20 million common stock investment portfolio...
SALISBURY, Rhodesia--Nationalist guerillas blew up oil storage tanks and attacked at least five polling places yesterday as Rhodesians prepared to vote today for the nation's first black-majority government...
...member of the non-partisan North-Eastern caucus which is designed to offset the Congressional voting power of such sun-belt states as California, Cohen said he has had to vote against his caucus and "go with my conscious" in some matters where he felt that the overall Federal benefits would outweigh his regional interests...
...happened on her way to the office. Every Chicagoan knew she was going to win. But nobody suspected the size of the majority that tough Democrat Jane Byrne, 44, was going to roll up over a weak Republican to become the Second City's first lady. When the votes were counted, Byrne had 82.1% of the vote-the biggest landslide in Chicago history. The political heirs of the late Richard J. Daley were impressed. "A gracious woman . . . a young woman ... a girl," stammered Cook County Democratic Leader George Dunne, searching for a handle. Sun-Times Columnist Mike Royko...
...overcome apartheid, persuade American firms to leave South Africa, and offer more encouragement to black workers than the alternative policy of pressing companies at stockholder meetings to improve treatment of black workers. "Harvard has declared its opposition to the South African regime," said Bok, "and has pledged itself to vote on shareholder resolutions in the manner best calculated to overcome apartheid." Calling this course "the most ethically responsible," Bok referred to legal problems facing portfolio managers who buy and sell on political rather than financial grounds. Said he: "Total divestment would almost certainly cause the university to divert millions...