Word: weedon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...divest, you put yourself in a position where you have no leverage to do anything," said I. Reid Weedon, senior vice president of the Cambridge consulting firm Arthur D. Little. The firm rates companies on how well they are adhering to the principles, a set of voluntary measures to desegregate workplaces and provide greater advancement opportunities for South Africa's Black majority...
While activists at Harvard have for 13 years called on the University to sell its $400 million of stock in companies that do business in the apartheid state, Weedon said those firms are the most active force for constructive change within South Africa...
...bond issue was originally purchased in entirety by the New York brokerage firm of Salomon Brothers. The Cambridge brokerage firm of Moseley, Hallgarten, Estabrook and Weedon bought a large chuck of the issue from Solomon Brothers, and as of late yesterday afternoon had about 320 of the bonds left for sale, according to Moseley broker Peter S. Scholl...
Claiming that no federal or state inspector has ever raised serious questions about the safety of the ADL laboratory. Weedon said that Cambridge police and fire officials, as well as the city manager, were all notified of the testing one year in advance...
...October of 1983, the Cambridge health commissioner [Melvin Chalfen] inspected the lab and allowed five months to elapse before taking any action, said Weedon, adding that Chalfen declared ADL's testing unsafe last March because of political pressure from the city council...