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...would be more of a symbolic reach for attention and influence at the convention than a serious final drive for the prize. He and his delegates would get their well-earned spotlight in the party's prime-time televised assembly. To abandon his bid for the nomination and withdraw his name completely from consideration at the convention would reduce his clout in shaping the party's platform and in working with Jackson to overhaul the delegate selection rules, which were shown to be unfair this year. "The 1,200 delegates he has now need a leader," said Connecticut Senator Christopher...
...bank's troubles partly on a web of entangling state and federal laws. Continental is unable to open offices to seek consumer deposits outside Chicago, for example, because Illinois statutes prohibit branch banking. That has helped make Charts Continental dependent on large foreign customers, who are apt to withdraw their money at the first sign of trouble...
...believe that portfolio companies should commit themselves to implement these policies. If a company is unable to achieve compliance within a specific period of time it should withdraw from South Africa or Harvard should divest...
...elimination of such involvement. Harvard should in cooperation with others if possible, develop specific principles defining the types of direct support for apartheid that should be eliminated. If portfolio companies fail to achieve substantial compliance with such principles within three years. Harvard should call on such companies to withdraw from South Africa. If they refuse to do so, Harvard should divest...
...papers in a matter of weeks while others have been waiting up to two years, the Times of London observed primly that in England "queue jumping is frowned upon." There are other critics. After setting a British junior record against an undistinguished field last week, Budd was pressured to withdraw from a tune-up race last Saturday in Sussex because officials said they feared antiapartheid demonstrators. Jane Furniss, England's No. 2 middle-distance runner, says of her new competitor: "When our flag goes up and they play the national anthem, would she feel she had won for Britain...