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Nothing, except that liberal activist judges have often made it extremely difficult to defend even the most reasonable selection criteria. As a result, many employers institute racial and sex quotas to avert the risk of costly litigation. No adverse impact, no complaints. No complaints, no litigation. Warped interpretations of Griggs, which the Kennedy bill restores, could toss common standards of competence, intelligence and hard work out the window...
...feels like the Falklands. During the weeks it took London's strike force to reach the South Atlantic in 1982, a flurry of diplomatic activity failed to avert war. Like George Bush in the current crisis, Britain's Margaret Thatcher refused to reward Argentina's aggression with a face-saving compromise, and Argentine President Leopoldo Galtieri compounded his original miscalculation by insisting that "the British won't fight...
...each written deft examples of all three. In their newest and most ambitious works, they adroitly fuse the subgenres together to paint rich, if characteristically jaundiced, social panoramas of decaying industrial towns. Both offer the teasing pleasures of suspense, sly misdirection and a breakneck climax as police seek to avert bloody murder. $ Both feature a gallery of vivid characters. And both take on themes ostensibly belonging to serious literature...
There was suddenly an enormous amount of talking -- peace talk, settlement talk, negotiation talk -- but most of it was just that, talk. Saddam Hussein, looking a little sweatier, issued a flurry of offers to negotiate, but his antics seemed intended mainly to avert a military showdown. A clutch of mediators led by U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar set off on peacemaking missions, yet none carried much promise of success. In Washington, President Bush toned down his rhetoric and turned his attention to diplomacy, but said bluntly that he had no immediate hope for "fruitful negotiations." Despite...
...quick military victory. If Saddam's seizure of U.S. diplomats last week is any guide, Iraq is capable of an action so provocative that the U.S. would be forced to retaliate. But war is never as quick, clean or painless as the planners say. Patience and determination might still avert the increasingly inevitable tragedy. Those qualities are in alarmingly short supply...