Word: brennan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Justices William J. Brennan, Thurgood Marshall, Harry A. Blackmun and John Paul Stevens dissented...
...ideas for the night of music began when Bullet LaVolta band member T. Corey Brennan, an Adams House resident Classics tutor, heard a tape of the Blake Babies at WHRB, where he is a disc jockey...
...negotiations continued through Thursday. Between meetings with Pennzoil, DeCrane and Kinnear were huddling with their team of advisers, including Boies, Investment Banker Donald Brennan of Morgan Stanley, and Gibson Gayle, a lawyer with the Houston firm of Fulbright & Jaworski. Several members of Texaco's board of directors hastily flew to Houston, among them Robert Beck, former chairman of Prudential Insurance, and Frank Cary, former IBM chairman. Other directors, including Thomas Murphy, chairman of Capital Cities/ABC, went to Texaco's White Plains headquarters to join the talks via conference calls. All week long board members debated whether or not the company...
...first time the Supreme Court explicitly ruled that women as well as blacks and other minorities can receive preferential treatment. Even more significantly, the decision endorsed a voluntary affirmative-action plan in a situation where there was no proven history of discrimination; all that was necessary, wrote Justice William Brennan for the majority, was evidence of a "manifest imbalance" in the number of women or minorities holding the positions in question...
Employers may still dismiss someone who is incapable of doing work or who poses a significant risk of spreading disease. But, Brennan stressed, each individual case must be judged in the light of medical evidence that such a risk exists and a showing that safe alternative work cannot reasonably be found for the employee...