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...that as many as half of such offenders are indigents, though not all of them will require lawyers. The right to counsel can be waived, or, as Douglas observed, a judge can decide before the trial that he will not impose a prison sentence, thus avoiding the need to assign a lawyer. In addition, a non-indigent who chooses not to pay for a lawyer need not be assigned...
...fact that the number of income tax protesters in 1971 was up only 92 from the year before. The resisters argue that, like Thoreau, they are fighting for a matter of principle. They also take a modest pride in the fact that their harassment has forced the IRS to assign someone at each major center to the task of "Viet Nam Protest Coordinator...
...understood Professor Bullitt, he has a responsibility to assign at least two readers to every thesis. Because the last few years have seen an increase in theses dealing with topics after 1800, while the majority of the faculty of the English Department specialize in topics before 1800, it has become necessary to assign theses to faculty unfamiliar with the topic discussed. A number of faculty refused to grade and comment on these theses unless they could remain anonymous, Professor Bullitt wants to get the theses read, so he must comply with those who demand anonymity...
...female advancement are mostly in gilt-edged and gilded-age industries such as banking, finance, steel, mining and railroads. On the other hand, women have found fairly wide opportunities in advertising and high-fashion retailing. Countless companies require female-but not male-college graduates to take typing tests, then assign the women to clerical jobs. Says Barbara Brush, an equal-employment specialist in San Francisco: "Once a woman sets herself up that way, even though she moves on to more interesting work, her salary will be $100 a week below a man's." Reason: if she starts...
...even greater within broad occupational groupings. Women in sales work, for example, in 1970 averaged only $4,188 v. $9,790 for the typical salesman. The difference in part reflects built-in job discrimination. Retail outlets are far more likely to assign women to sell low-ticket items such as greeting cards and candy, while men are trained to sell high-priced goods like major appliances, often on commission. The pay differential narrows at higher job levels. Women professional and technical workers, including school principals, laboratory workers and computer programmers, earn on the average 67% as much...