Word: warrants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This freedom-o-choice argument may convince some that the 300,000 annual deaths in the U.S. linked to smoking to do not warrant shareholder steps like divestiture. The question becomes much less fuzzy, however, when we look beyond our own borders to the rapacious marketing practices of tobacco companies in foreign countries, especially the Third World. The ACSR recommendations addresses this concern only briefly, but details of these practices reveal the truly exploitative intentions of films like Philip Morris and provide a moving case for Harvard to divest in tobacco stock...
...years, the capital-punishment debate has been sporadic and mainly intramural-professor vs. professor, lawyer vs. lawyer-as executions took place only once or twice annually at most. Says Florida's Governor Robert Graham, who signed Spenkelink's death warrant in 1979: "We haven't enforced the death penalty much, so we've been able to avoid all the responsibilities that go with that experience...
...swiftest gainer on the N.Y.S.E. was actually not a stock but a warrant, a security that gives its owner the right to purchase a stock at a set price over a period of time. The winning warrant was for Chrysler Corp., at $13 a share until 1985. As the year started, Chrysler stock was selling at 3⅜, so that the opportunity to buy a share at 13 was not worth much: the warrant sold for 1¼. By year's end, however, Chrysler shares had gunned ahead to 17¾, and the warrant was trading...
...recognizable stars might be a safe box-office bet. Although the movie reveals the then-burgeoning talents of co-director DePalma (Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out), actress Jill Clayburgh (An Unmarried Woman), and Robert DeNiro (The Godfather, The Deer Hunter, Raging Bull), the film doesn't warrant renewed interest as if it were a resurrected unified piece of art. The public forgot it easily enough in 1969, and--not so strangely--it's as unremarkable...
Chatwin interrupts this sibling harmony with England's entry into World War 1. The farm is not big enough to warrant service exemptions for both of them. Their father explains to the local authorities "how his sons were not two persons, but one," to no avail. Benjamin is inducted and hauled off to the nearest barracks: "A month later, certain warning signals told Lewis that the army had given up trying to train his brother, and was using force." Benjamin's "dishonorable discharge" spares the twins from physical injuries, but the word that both are slackers and shirkers...