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...population was: Anglo 76%, Black 12%, Latino 9%, Asian 3%. By 2050 the breakdown is projected to be: Anglo 52%, Black 16%, Latino 22%, Asian...
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, writing for the court, rejected the "psychological injury" standard. Federal law, she said, "comes into play before the harassing conduct leads to a nervous breakdown." While "merely offensive" conduct is not prohibited, she wrote, an employer has broken the law if a "reasonable person" would find the workplace so filled with sexual improprieties that it had become a hostile and abusive environment...
...make Europe jealous. U.S. trade across the Pacific is already 50% greater than its transatlantic counterpart, a sizable change from 1980, when the figures were about equal. The European Community knows that APEC could provide the U.S. with a consortium to fall back on in the event of a breakdown in current negotiations over the 111-nation General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which aims to reduce trade barriers throughout the world. As a Dec. 15 deadline approaches, those talks have bogged down on several issues, especially the European Community's insistence on renegotiating an agriculture accord that...
...TIME: There are also reports that you are a depressive who recently had a nervous breakdown...
...Going down 2-0 with only ten minutes left takes the wind out of your sails," junior Pepper Brill said. "The goals we gave up were a result of a mental breakdown. We need more intensity in our defensive box. The second goal they scored was just lazy defense...