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...While the ACSR research was valuable in prompting the PetroChina decision, they hold little real power—they can only make recommendations and primarily focus on shareholder votes, not screenings of investments. Overall, the Bok standard of ad hoc ethical decision-making—adopted in reaction to student protests over investments in Apartheid—is a formula for managing public relations crises, not a coherent set of guidelines...
While Leo and Martha’s post coital conversations bear witness to their love, Malcolm’s statements about European reaction to the Chinese Civil War, or her summary of World War One, feel stilted and awkwardly placed, merely mechanisms to get the action moving again...
...world championships, a World Cup overall title, two World Cup discipline titles, and this year leads standings in both downhill and Super-G.Starting 23rd, Dorfmeister skied the tricky top aggressively and established a lead of 1.18 seconds. "Wow, that's what I wanted," Dorfmeister said, recalling her reaction. "I tried not to get caught in the wind because you lose time and it is very difficult to regain that time...
...Matalin also said people who don't understand the Vice President's reaction-especially his reluctance to go on camera to talk about the tragedy-have stopped thinking like normal people. "His audience is Harry," Matalin said. "Every time I've talked to him, it's always about Harry. ... He wasn't covering up. He was gathering facts, going to the sheriff. It wasn't Campaign 101 style. It was the objective of getting the information to the press, and attending to the sheriff and most importantly dealing with my friend. Sorry, those were the priorities. It got done...
...cross-country skiing, where crashes aren't the ever-present danger they are in alpine skiing, there are few things worse than losing or breaking a pole. So when Sara Renner's pole snapped midway through the Olympic women's cross country skiing team sprint race, the reaction was pretty near unanimous. "Oh no!" thought her relay partner, Beckie Scott, in the transition area below. "Not now, not here." "Oh my God, they've worked so hard for 12 years together and now, a stupid pole breaks!" recalled Sara's father Sepp Renner, watching in horror from the stands...