Word: bergen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moments of Reagan's otherwise happy childhood is when he comes home one night to find his father passed out, drunk, on the snow of their front yard, his arms spread out as if he were crucified. At the end of the book, Morris charts Reagan's trip to Bergen-Belsen, and the photographs of the white corpses shown upon a black background in cruciform position that he saw at the entrance to the field...
...Asian female in Bergen County, New Jersey can expect to live 41 years longer than a Native American in Bennett or Jackson Counties in South Dakota...
...court has taken up the plight of the young, recognizing in an unusual and potentially groundbreaking decision a new civil right to be green. Earlier this year, the supreme court of New Jersey unanimously ruled that Michael Sisler, 31, can proceed with an age-discrimination suit against Bergen Commercial Bank in Paramus, N.J. The case will go to trial in the near future, but it began in 1993, when Sisler was an employee at New Era, a local bank his grandfather had founded. As Sisler tells the story in court papers, chairman Anthony Bruno of Bergen Commercial, a larger financial...
...Sisler started, Bruno took him to lunch. He then asked a question that had somehow not occurred to him before: How old are you, anyway? Bruno was floored by the answer. Don't tell anyone, the bank chief warned. Sisler's youth could embarrass co-workers and, worse, anger Bergen's board...
...after a five-year battle, New Jersey's highest court disagreed, ruling in February that the state's Law Against Discrimination prohibits bias based on any consideration of age. The case now goes to trial to determine if the bank, in fact, fired Sisler because of his age. (Bergen has never fully told its side of the story. But Bergen lawyer Angelo Genova said Sisler wasn't performing up to the bank's standards before he was let go. The bank has also alleged in a lawsuit that Sisler took files that didn't belong...