Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard and Stanford's decision to deny contracts to PepsiCo was in all probability a significant factor in PepsiCo's decisions to withdraw from Burma," Simons said...
...Harvard Burma Action Group (HBAG) chair led last spring's resistance to having Pepsi in the dining halls. PepsiCo's recent announcement that it will withdraw all investment from Burma by May 31, 1997 has changed his mind...
...things. Philips Brooks House sends about 1,000 student volunteers into Boston. Cambridge and other localities, improving the lives of thousands of needy individuals every year. Let's Go, Inc. publishes a best-selling series of travel guides. The Undergraduate Council almost unquestionably helped influence Pepsi's decision to withdraw its investments from Burma. Harvard perennially leads the nations in Rhodes and Marshall Scholars. Its students write books and plays and TV scripts. They appear in movies, on national television and in the Olympics...
...arrive at the truth fairly via coercion and secrecy, established civil liberties laws to protect citizens from the potential excess of the government. The Ad Board undeniably shares the potential for these excesses, given that it has substantial power to seriously damage students via probation, explusion and requirements to withdraw. But within its current system, Harvard has implicitly decreed that the Ad Board is not party to these abuses...
...besieged by reporters when she showed up at the courthouse for a murder trial that she had to drop the case. "I stayed out of the limelight when he was on top. I got pulled in when he was at the bottom. Surely I should be able to withdraw...