Word: undertook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, at their annual meeting, Continental Illinois stockholders, in a management-supported move, voted down a proxy which "sought to prohibit the corporation from making or renewing any loans in South Africa until the government of that country undertook certain enumerated actions to end its apartheid policies...
...After you've seen Animal House for the seventh time, you look for something else to do," added John Gilberton, explaining why he and his Heineken buddies undertook such a useless project in the first place...
...hardliners, Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and P.L.O. Boss Yasser Arafat, even undertook a sudden trip to Jordan to try to persuade their longtime enemy, King Hussein, to boycott the Israeli-Egyptian negotiations. It was an extraordinary idea?Hussein and Arafat had not met on Jordanian soil since 1970, the year that the P.L.O. virtually seized control of Amman until the King attacked and expelled them. Hussein quickly rejected the new ploy. "The King," said a Jordanian official, "will not respond to any appeals or pressures, and his moderate stance remains the same...
...firms, notably IBM, have long had equal-pay-for-equal-work policies, many more companies have lately been moving to redress a particular grievance of blacks: a system of bonuses that traditionally allowed whites to earn about three or four times as much as blacks in similar jobs. Goodyear undertook a two-year effort to eliminate bonuses and revise its entire pay and job classification structure on the basis of aptitude tests. Result: wages of blacks and coloreds generally went up (some by as much as 100%), while some whites took pay cuts...
...bypass Lesley Brown's fallopian tubes, Oldham Hospital's Steptoe, 65, a highly respected gynecologist, and his colleague, Cambridge University Physiologist Robert Edwards, 52, undertook a remarkable procedure they have been experimenting with for a decade. They removed a ripe egg from Mrs. Brown's ovary, placed it in a laboratory dish and added sperm from her husband. After incubating the ovum as it began to divide, they finally placed the developing embryo in the uterus, where it became implanted and continued to grow into a fetus in what seemed to be an entirely normal...