Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rightist persuasions. In its first cabinet, for instance, the P.Q. government had both a labor minister who fought for the highest minimum wage on the continent and for pro-union labor legislation, and a finance minister known for his conservatism. Until last year, the party was pledged to withdraw from NATO, but at its last convention, it reversed its policy so as not to antagonize...
When Bok claims that lying is an acceptable part of social psychology, her views are at best misleading. Although some temporary deception of participants in research experiments is common, the participants are usually informed before the experiment that they may be deceived, are allowed to withdraw from the experiment at any time, and are given a complete, honest description of everything in the experiment immediately afterward. The purpose of such deception is usually not a sadistic attempt to see how the participant "reacts under pressure," but rather it is to allow researchers to answer questions more important than whether people...
Those closest to the South African situation--the black leaders and political organizations in the country itself--have called upon U.S. corporations to withdraw their operations from South Africa. These concerned parties, along with international and national organizations like the United Nations General Assembly and the U.S. Congressional Black Caucus, which American multinational investments offer to the entrenched white South African minority. The time for timidity, for kid glove "sensibility," passed...
...keeping with the United Front's minimum demands, Harvard should sell all stocks and bonds in U.S. banks which have kept the apartheid regime and its economy afloat through loans to the South African government. It must support, and where necessary sponsor, shareholder resolutions calling upon companies to withdraw from South Africa. Furthermore, Harvard must be prepared to employ divestiture as a subsequent action should companies refuse to respond to shareholder pressure. Finally, the University should issue a clear public statement of its policies regarding U.S. companies still operating in South Africa...
...Harvard Republican Club does not, as implied by Friday's Crimson, withdraw its observation that a student government will likely result in a term-bill charge. The fact remains that the Constitutional Convention early in deliberations studied student organizations at other schools and discovered that the most effective student governments collected revenues from students in the form of mandatory charges. Michael Calabrese, Convention chairperson, was asked at the conclusion of a South House town meeting how the proposed government would be funded; he answered that they would try to raise money through dances, movies and the like, but would probably...