Word: actioner
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...call to make the Federal Government a model employer of the disabled. In December, Vice President Al Gore announced an Executive Order approving two of the recommendations, those concerning the SBA and the Federal Government, says Becky Ogle, executive director of the task force. Putting these plans into action, says Ogle, will have a minimal cost, but no specific number can yet be attached...
...changes would be significant if they reflected the difference made in individual districts by state rulings. Raul Ugarte, a parent in Antioch, Calif., sued his school district five years ago after it refused to take action against a boy who was sexually harassing and threatening to kill his fifth-grade daughter Tianna. Ugarte won a $450,000 judgment, and the school district fired the superintendent...
Supporters of the lawsuit contend the lines would be clear, with the school responsible only for taking reasonable action rather than ensuring that the behavior ends. Yet the moving parts are many and concerning. The behavior would have to be severe, repeated and objectionable to a reasonable person. But it's hard to see which jeers and touches would meet everyone's definition of unreasonable. And as the courts test that standard, they will also have to measure what it means for a school to take reasonable action. Was detention too little or suspension too much...
Earlier this month, Barker's fight to reclaim the land--now dotted with red FOR SALE signs and yellow NO TRESPASSING signs--got a boost. The U.S. Department of Agriculture agreed to settle a 1997 class action that had accused the agency of denying black farmers loans and crop subsidies routinely available to white farmers. The landmark agreement requires the government to pay as much as $375 million to more than 3,500 black farmers. Most will probably accept the basic option guaranteeing a $50,000 tax-free payment and retirement of any government debts, which average about...
...Harvard used to have centers for undergraduatelife. It didn't rely upon the clubs forlocations," he said. "The clubs should be clubs,and Harvard should do something to make the clubsnot the place where action is supposedly happeningwith its undergraduates...