Word: bidness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to the court's ruling, the legal burden of proof shifts to Price Waterhouse. The firm must establish that it would have rejected Hopkins' partnership bid based on purely nondiscriminatory factors. "At this point," noted Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, "the employer may be required to convince the fact finder that, despite the smoke, there is no fire." The court's decision to shift the burden to the employer should make it easier for many employees to win Title VII cases, which also bar job discrimination on the basis of race, religion and national origin...
Viola, the 1988 Cy Young Award winner with a 24-7 record, lost the shutout bid when the Red Sox made it 6-1 in the eighth on a one-out double by Wade Boggs and a two-out single by Ellis Burks...
...evidence last week that some local functionaries had not got the message from the first round of votes. In one district of the Russian city of Pskov, the local electoral commission chose the regional party boss again as its uncontested candidate, despite the fact that he lost his first bid at the ballot box. The liberals could at least claim a triumph in the second round of elections at the Soviet Union's Academy of Sciences. After weeks of debate, academy members finally voted Nobel Peace laureate Andrei Sakharov one of their 20 seats in the congress. Independent deputies...
...most recent tenure denials were to Boone and Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities Deborah E. Nord. Bok, who has the final say in tenurematters, denied Nord's tenure bid in March afterthe department's senior faculty had approved...
Harvard's season will be over today unless the Crimson gets an NCAA bid, which isn't expected, but is still a possibility...