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When a stockholder fails to take a stand on the moral or ethical implications of its investments, it is "supporting the status quo--which in the case of Harvard's investments in South Africa is apartheid," Molyneux said...
...sham," said Senator Joe Biden of Delaware. "We're trying to find an instrumentality to preserve the status quo." Or, as a House staffer explained it, "the idea was to create a country without calling it a country...
Thirdly, in our society, it is generally understood that the quid pro quo for philanthropy is immortality. Furthermore, Steiner asserts, the University considers these commemorations as bestowing gratitude, not honor. A two-volume, 1000-page book entitled The Endowment Funds of Harvard University lists thousands of funds, big or small, that were automatically named after the man with the money, good or evil...
...litanies of corruption, intimidation, and dictatorial control by Teamster bosses that can turn the Teamsters into dissidents. But at the same time, Brill entertains few illusions about the power of American Dream-style prosperity, on the order of $28,000 a year, to undercut reform and maintain the status quo...
...time in this country, but that peace and affluence brought with it a very conservative outlook. America had stemmed the tide of fascism, we had the bomb (and so did they), for the first time there was security and prosperity, and that brought with it commitment to the status quo. One didn't tamper with success, and as America had accomplished more than any other country on earth, to question what was happening in this country was to question the American Dream, to be an ingrate. Eisenhower himself said that the greatest problem facing America in the '50s was finding...