Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South Africa--we're talking about loans to the Vorster government itself. In another instance, the University would not vote to force the General Electric Corporation--a company that even Harvard's investment research center described as one of the more socially retrograde U.S. corporations in South Africa--to withdraw its operations from the country. Treasurer George Putnam explained the Harvard Corporation members' vote by saying they believe General Electric to be a "responsible" corporation in South Africa...
Then she began to withdraw her money with a vengeance, sometimes carting as much as $500,000 in cash home from the bank. She gave $10 and $20 bills to local children for odd jobs and as gifts. When her aging Cadillac blew a water hose, she plunked down $27,000 in cash for two Sevilles, explaining that she never wanted to be caught again without a car to drive...
...seeing them as the exemplars of ethical impulses (cf. the "Birth of a Nation" fracas of a few terms ago) that white society in its relativism and decadence has lost touch with. Neglected again as Conscience that needs very often to be kept at arm's length, the minorities withdraw into themselves, resenting and exploiting this treatment...
...that Germany and Japan stimulate their economies and thereby increase imports from Britain, France and Italy, which badly need to sell more abroad to help their own recoveries. Japan and Germany are reluctant to adopt any major stimulus program for much the same inflationary worries that led Carter to withdraw the rebate. Some experts are relieved that "reflation" will not be made an issue by Carter, at least formally. Says one White House planner: "Pushing them [Japan and Germany] is probably the wrong tactical move...
...laughable if it were not so tragic. Columbia's use of the academic freedom argument to defend its desire to hire Kissinger is a hypocritical perversion of a worthwhile ideal; Columbia administrators should listen to the students and faculty members there who have protested the university's offer and withdraw its offer to Kissinger...