Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...companies physically in South Africa were to decide to withdraw universally, what would prevent them from being nationalized by the South African government...
Resolved: Students who argue that a company's opportunity to work within a system for change is overshadowed by its association with that system, will cease to criticize Harvard policy and immediately and totally withdraw from school, so as not to dignify an allegedly immoral university with their presence. --David M. Gullick...
Three times since 1972, Ohira has had a chance to drive for the party leadership, but on each occasion the reluctant bull backed away. The last time, in 1975, he and Fukuda, his opponent, reportedly made an oral agreement that Ohira would withdraw and support Fukuda and that Fukuda in turn would step aside as Premier and party leader at the end of his term, in Ohira's favor. Fukuda apparently reneged on the deal, and that may be what finally moved Ohira to put up a real fight for the leadership...
...incident came one year to the exact day and hour after a raid which resulted in the arrest of seven undergraduates. After last year's arrests five students were forced to withdraw and others received a maximum of one and a half years of probation...
...petition that will go to the Harvard Corporation says that because of Harvard's "prestige and influence" its divestiture "would contribute significantly to the mounting pressure on U.S. corporations to withdraw, thus helping to expedite the end of apartheid and the beginning of majority rule in South Africa...