Word: barest
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...last week's crash course made clear, most women and men, especially most + Senators, had only the barest understanding of the power of the law. Under Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guidelines issued in 1980 and unanimously affirmed by the Supreme Court in 1986, sexual harassment includes not just physical but also verbal and "environmental" abuse. Under the law, there are two broadly recognized forms. The first involves a "quid pro quo" in which a worker is compelled to trade sex for professional survival. In 1986 an Ohio woman won a $3.1 million verdict against an employer who invited...
...days of dictatorship, who figured they dared not let the pact go into effect. Now, in the wake of the popular upheaval that defeated the putsch, the treaty has become a dead letter, judged totally inadequate to slake the republics' suddenly sharpened thirst for independence. At barest minimum, what was still officially one country on Aug. 19 will be four. The center, as Soviets call the government in the Kremlin, is no longer even trying to keep the three Baltic republics in any kind of union. A rapidly growing list of foreign governments last week formally recognized Latvia, Lithuania...
...what does anyone really know about Neil Rudenstine? Only the barest and driest facts are available to the general public. He had a long and distinguished career at Princeton. He plans to teach a seminar for first-year students and appoint a provost. He is said to be fond of opera...
...Kremlin than any other East bloc country. He so ruined the national economy that for years to come it may have little to export beyond small agricultural surpluses, and serious market reforms may take just as long. Now that the insane policy of exporting everything but the barest necessities has ended, however, the country will probably avoid the kind of collapse that threatens Poland, because Rumania's farm production will probably be adequate for the nation's needs...