Word: divesting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Tutu, a Nobel peace laureate, will be a powerful moral voice on the Board and lends a lot of credibility to the pro-divestment forces. He has repeatedly urged Harvard and President Derek C. Bok to divest, threatening to return his honorary degree should the University...
Despite the defeat of the four other HRAAA candidates for the Board this year, HRAAA officials have predicted that Tutu's presence will give the Board a definitive pro-divestment slant. Some even predicted that the University would divest its $163.8 million in South Africa-related investments within the year...
...limited partnership fund attempting a $20.3 billion leveraged buyout of RJR-Nabisco. If the takeover were successful, Harvard money managers say the University would hold indirect investments in the cigarette company--the same company from which a Harvard committee on ethics in investment advised the University to divest in the spring...
...Seeking to advance the candidacy of South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu to the Harvard Board of Overseers and calling on the University to divest, a group of Divinity School students begin two days of prayer and fasting in Memorial Church...
Many say Bok's refusal to divest totally of Harvard's South Africa-related investments--despite more than a decade of pressure from campus and alumni activists--is typical of this attitude. The president's stand is so firm that his associates generally refer to divestment as a matter already settled, citing the effort they say Bok has put into examining the issue...