Word: acted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Then complications in Kim's pregnancy forced her doctors to induce labor prematurely, leaving her bedridden. Kevin, a trooper with the Maryland state police for 18 years, applied for extended leave to tend to his wife and infant, a request that fell under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act and a state law that provides paid leave for primary caregivers. He was allotted just 10 days, at the end of which his wife was still hemorrhaging and too weak to care for the baby. He asked for more time, but claims that the personnel manager responded, "Unless your wife...
...been denied the leave solely because of his gender. Then he sought help from the American Civil Liberties Union, which sued the state on his behalf. Last week a jury sided with Kevin, awarding him $375,000 in the first-ever sex-discrimination case brought under the federal act. The state argued that Kevin did not alert the right people to his wife's condition and failed to prove that he was the primary care provider. "It was never a gender-based issue," says Maryland assistant attorney general Betty Stemley Sconion, who may appeal the verdict...
...long legal fight has turned Kevin into a poster dad for the Family and Medical Leave Act, now six years old. Though about 2 million people a year take parental leave under the act, only half a million of them are men. Kevin is working to even the scales. He has testified before a federal commission and even got a mention in Hillary Rodham Clinton's book It Takes a Village. But the biggest changes are back home. When he and his wife had their second child, in 1996, Kevin was granted a full 12 weeks of paid leave...
...American distribution of Kent's Isola. Taking advantage of their wider stateside popularity, The Cardigans headlined the show, leaving the lesser-known Kent to play a short opening set. But popularity was not the best predictor of performance. Kent's brilliant, lacerating set was a tough act to follow, and The Cardigans' pop melodies could only barely compete with the expansive songs of Isola...
...backyard--the child of Sarah and Coalhouse Walker Jr. Much to everyone's shock, she takes both baby and mother into her house, and its not long before Coalhouse himself comes a'courtin', enchanting the once-uppity white folks with his amazing piano-playing abilities. Unfortunately, a violent act of racism soon sours Coalhouse and Sarah's blossoming romance, and tragedy moves into center stage by the conclusion of Act I. In the midst of all of this, Tateh and his daughter struggle more and more to find money for food, much less the fabled wealth that they heard about...