State treasurer of Missouri Sarah Steelman is doing just that from Missouri's pension fund.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Transcript of CNBC Divest Terror debate
Ms. STEELMAN: Liz, we--I--I'm an institutional investor as the state treasurer and we made that choice.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Transcript of CNBC Divest Terror debate
Sarah Steelman, Frank Gaffney, and William Reinsch thank you so much for discussing this.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Transcript of CNBC Divest Terror debate
Amy Steelman and Lou Angeli joined CNN.com Newsroom via telephone from the disaster site in New York.
The area in and around the rubble is "a city unto itself" for emergency workers, Steelman says.
With each passing day, a pungent smell -- "the smell of death, " Steelman says -- gets stronger.
Importantly, Treasurer Steelman took this first-in-the-nation step to divest terror after having conducted a rigorous market analysis.
Ms. STEELMAN: Well, Liz, contrary to what your guest said, the State Department has sanctioned these countries.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Transcript of CNBC Divest Terror debate
Ms. SARAH STEELMAN (Missouri State Treasurer): Well, Liz, we've taken a number of steps here in Missouri.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Transcript of CNBC Divest Terror debate
But the tunnel he and Steelman use one day may not be there the next time the two venture down.
Ms. STEELMAN: And that's where we're drawing the line here in Missouri.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Transcript of CNBC Divest Terror debate
Ms. STEELMAN: So what we are doing is we asked for it, Wall Street gave it to us and we--the choice was there.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Transcript of CNBC Divest Terror debate
Las Vegas illustrates just how varied casino design can be - pyramids, medieval castles, circuses - pretty much "anything goes", says Paul Steelman.
Like other rescue workers whose job it is to venture underground, Angeli and Steelman spray orange paint to mark the places they have searched.
This 49-year-old son of a steelman from Rajasthan, India buys troubled mills all over the world and tucks them into his Ispat International N.
Thanks to Sarah Steelman's courage and leadership, the opportunity to privatize an important part of the War for the Free World is at hand.
Importantly, Ms. Steelman's experience with MIT makes it clear that one need not sacrifice return on investment in order to do the right thing.
Carole Mansfield and Monica Steelman, Nicole's aunt, described Nicole as caring and outgoing, saying she'd sometime travel without telling her family where she was heading.
Angeli and Steelman are both firefighters in a suburban Philadelphia department.
Ms. STEELMAN: There's a shareholder risk to holding these stocks, and as state treasurer, I believe I had a fiduciary responsibility to protect these pension funds.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Transcript of CNBC Divest Terror debate
Angeli and Steelman describe a 20-story section of 1 World Trade Center -- the north tower -- now embedded into the ground to the subway lines below.
Michael Steelman of Oklahoma City, past president of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians, had a patient so determined to have the surgery that she gained 11 kilos.
Ms. STEELMAN: I have talked our firefighters and police officers.
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"I was shocked to learn that a portion of our state pension funds supported corporations that were invested in Iran and other countries that work with terrorists, " Ms. Steelman said.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Terror-free investment gathers steam
This November, we could elect five new conservative women -- Deb Fischer, Sarah Steelman, Heather Wilson, Linda Lingle and Linda McMahon -- to the U.S. Senate, ending the do-nothing-but-harm reign of Harry Reid.
The Journal's op.ed. pages feature an extraordinary essay by Sarah Steelman, the State Treasurer of Missouri, which calls national and international attention to the newest instrument for defeating state-sponsors of terrorism: Terror-free investing.
The second article, which appeared on the front page of the paper's "Money and Investing" section, details Missouri Treasurer Sarah Steelman's spearheading of terror-free investing initiatives in her own state and around the country.
Though it has been seven days since anyone was pulled alive from the rubble, Angeli, Steelman and the other underground rescue workers are saying there are enough open spaces, with food and water, for people to survive.
Under Treasurer Steelman's leadership, the fund's board voted last September to adopt an anti-terrorism "screen" for its portfolio and subsequently issued a Request for Proposals for a "large cap" international fund that would provide such a screen.
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