Word: acted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...avoiding a nationwide strike and exempting military and medical supplies, the union obviously hoped to thwart any move to impose an 80-day cooling-off period under the Taft-Hartley Act. To get a court order under the law, the President must show that a strike will endanger the nation's health or safety...
...labor force. Less than 2% of these craftsmen were black, although blacks made up 39% of the local work force. During 100 minutes of oral arguments last week, Weber's lawyer, Michael Fontham, said that such an explicit racial quota violated Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which bans job discrimination on the basis of race. "You mean you can't avoid discrimination by discriminating?" said Justice Byron White. "Yes, your honor," Fontham replied emphatically...
Kahn said DSOC hopes Maurice Lazarus '37, a member of the Board of Overseers and the financial policy chairman of FDS, will "act morally in this matter...
...statement is the second in a series of letters expressing a reluctance to have Harvard act, in the words of the latest letter, "as part of a pressure group using the leverage of our purchases, our endowment, and our prestige as a university to push for social and political ends...
...catastrophic reactor accident could be more devastating than any previous peacetime event. A U.S. government report, kept secret until a Freedom of Information Act request was filed, predicts that a credible nuclear power plant accident could conceivably kill 45,000 people and create a disaster area the size of Pennsylvania...