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...meeting with the CCSR, the ACSR broadened the scope of its inquiry from the question of screening investments to the University's South Africa policy as a whole. As the Committee spent more time on the issue and examined more evidence, several members who had balked at the rigid use of the Sullivan Principles as the standard of corporate behavior and at the establishment of fixed limits on correspondence with the managements of delinquent companies accepted these positions. General divestiture became a viable topic for debate...
...million instrument will be spun away from the Challenger on the second day of the flight. To site it correctly, the shuttle has to be placed in a different orbit from its seven predecessors, one that can be achieved only through a night launch. And because of the rigid rules of orbital mechanics, only a night landing is possible. Otherwise, the spaceship would have to circle the earth for a month before finding a daytime window through which to come down...
...case was a textbook illustration of the absurdity of South Africa's rigid apartheid policy. In a field on the outskirts of Pretoria, a black worker came upon a two-week-old infant wrapped in a blanket, her head covered with a paper bag. The abandoned baby was taken to a nearby hospital, where nurses named her Lize...
...extraordinary child-rearing practices of Japan: a deep and sustained dependence on Mother that paves the way for the adult's dependence on the familial group and the corporation that engulfs and sustains him. A Japanese child is pampered, brought up permissively and then tossed into a rigid and highly competitive school system. This sets off a yearning for the old dependency on Mother and a search for unity with others that Psychiatrist Takeo Doi of Tokyo considers a critical factor in the formation of Japanese adult character...
...Totto-Chan, the Little Girl at the Window, which has sold an extraordinary 6 million copies, making it the bestselling book in Japanese history. The daughter of a father who was a concert violinist and a mother who trained as an opera singer, Tetsuko was thrown out of her rigid grammar school at the age of six because she liked to stand at an open window and chatter with the swallows and street musicians. She subsequently attended an experimental school in Tokyo that allowed her to blossom in her own way. Her book, a tribute to that school...