disinvestment

"What about disinvestment of American business from my country, you are all for that too?"

The Administration answers this need with a program of disinvestment.

Mexico plans to close the disinvestment office this year or early in 1994.

"States, unfortunately, are having to make up for Federal disinvestment," he said.

The congress supports disinvestment by foreign companies as a means of increasing pressure on the Government.

But that would have meant a real material sacrifice by the West, which disinvestment did not.

The head of a California bank anticipated "long-term community disinvestment."

In real terms, cuts translate into job losses and community disinvestment.

Without sanctions and disinvestment, he estimated, the nation's growth rate would have reached 4 or 5 percent a year.

The disinvestment campaign is related to other economic and political boycotts of Israel.

The disinvestment in these buildings and other city assets has occurred over at least the last three decades.

All this came against a backdrop of foreign disinvestment.

A seventh reason is pressure from shareholders for social reasons (sometimes also called Disinvestment).

Disinvestment in American cities, and particularly in their public schools, is dangerous.

"As disinvestment in these building escalates, there is no one around to hold things together.

"We had disinvestment, lost tax ratables and people were fleeing the city."

But you can't turn around 50 to 75 years of disinvestment overnight."

Meanwhile, the program leads to disinvestment in the public system it aims to replace.

Or the decision of a private university to continue disinvestment policies until apartheid is further dismantled?

The riots caused more people (and jobs) to leave the area, which suffered decades of disinvestment.

In steel, American companies are competitive again after decades of disinvestment and obsolescence.

Where disinvestment has hurt is in disrupting access to new technology and investment from former parent companies.

Few whites have felt directly threatened by the disinvestment of foreign companies, for example, because it has been mostly blacks who lost jobs.

"In terms of the balance of payments, disinvestment had little effect," he said.

But crime and disinvestment have changed the picture.