Word: award
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...YEAR LUNCH (PBS, Aug. 15, 9 p.m. on most stations). Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley and the other literary legends who traded bons mots around the Algonquin Round Table are fondly recalled in this Academy Award-winning documentary...
...Awards for black victims in civil suits are a third or sometimes even half the amount of those given to white plaintiffs. A 1985 Rand Corp. study of 9,000 civil cases in Cook County, Ill., from 1959 to 1979 found that the median award to a white in a wrongful-death auto accident was $79,000; for a black it was $58,000. Other studies show that sentences for black criminals tend to be longer than those handed down to whites convicted of similar crimes. While blacks make up only 12% of the general population, they account for nearly...
Koko Taylor, Grammy award blues performer holds an outdoor concert in the DeCordova Musuem amphitheater in Sandy Pond Road Lincoln at 3 p.m. Sunday. Adults pay $10, and elders and children pay $8. Telephone...
Jackson is suing the University and Dean of the Business School John H. McArthur, charging that she was denied tenure because she is a woman. Jackson is asking Federal Judge Douglas P. Woodlock, Jr. to award her a tenured post, attorney fees and $847,000 in lost income. If she succeeds, Jackson will become the fifth woman to join the school's tenured ranks throughout its 80-year history, and one of four women currently among the school's senior faculty...
Bloch received the award for "his discovery of the principle of suicide inhibitors for enzymes and for an example of that principle. His discovery points the way to the rational design of therapeutic agents," a White House press release describing the achievements of the recipients...