Word: weaknessness
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An even greater weakness of divestment as an effective means of ending apartheid, Bok says, is stockholder replacement. He argues that if we sold our stock, it would naturally be bought by someone else, presumably less concerned over apartheid, and therefore contribute nothing to resolution of the problem. It's...
Garrett told The New York Times that he called his players drug-addicted losers "because all of our societal vices now show weakness of the will as related to drug use."
"The weakness of the will here--not wanting to go out and stay with a tremendous emotional approach against Harvard--meant that our vice was losing," he said. "So, in essence, our drug was losing, and we use adversity to go back to our old standards."
A greater weakness in the strategy of divestment, however, is its assumption that selling stock will somehow force companies to leave. In fact, divestment merely transfers shares from one stockholder to another without bringing any effective economic force to bear on management. Thus, it Harvard had sold its stock at...
Moreover, the University has shown contempt for its own traditions of free speech and movement by failing to take proper measures to enforce these rights. Instead it has, in an act of institutional weakness, resurrected an almost universally-hated tribunal which makes a mockery of the very rights the University...