Word: divested
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decide that the conflict of interest is so severe that the investigator would have to divest the financial interest, or we may decide that the conflict of interest can be adequately dealt with simply by public disclosure," Halperin says...
Simon C. Billenness, senior analyst for the Boston-based Franklin Research & Development Corporation, followed Zun's speech with a summary of his efforts to urge state legislators to divest from Burma...
...wake of controversy engulfing apartheid-ridden South Africa, some students and alumni called on the University to divest of its South Africa-related stock...
...profound belief that there is only oneway to achieve this: we must divest ourselves ofour egotistical anthropocentrism, our habit ofseeing ourselves as masters of the universe whocan do whatever occurs to us. We must discover anew respect for what transcends us: for theuniverse, for the earth, for nature, for life andfor reality. Our respect for other people, forother nations and for other cultures, can onlygrow from a humble respect for the cosmic orderand from an awareness that we are a part of it,that we share in it and that nothing of what we dois last, but rather becomes part...
During Slichter's tenure, the University applied a complex set of principles, which include whether the social conduct of a company was beneficial to its employees. Largely as a result of the committee's analysis, the University decided to divest itself from all its tobacco holdings, while still maintaining an interest in some companies who dealt with apartheidridden South Africa...