Word: brennans
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...business establishment feel that many of Soglin's committee appointees lack the expertise needed to deal with municipal problems. "These are a lot of people who have been in the stands watching but who haven't had a chance to play the game," says Robert Brennan, a former University of Wisconsin track coach and head of the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce, who has been working to bridge the gap between Soglin and the businessmen...
Justice William Brennan saw just such a requirement. In his dissenting opinion, he accused California of creating "a double standard for disability compensation" by excluding "a gender-linked disability peculiar to women" while conferring full benefits for such classic male disabilities as prostatectomies and circumcision. The economic effects of pregnancy, wrote Brennan, are "functionally indistinguishable from the effects caused by any other disability." By Brennan's standards, California's compensation law is a clear case of sex discrimination...
...MAEVE BRENNAN...
...Maeve Brennan is the kind of writer who can transform the arrival of a sofa in a lower-middle-class Dublin household or the cleaning of a carpet (one with big pink roses on it) into an extraordinary celebration of family love. She does this by a steady accumulation of detail and alternate flashes of passionate statement and raw insight. The accomplishment is formidable-something few writers attempt without sounding precious, dull, or both...
...California Standard subsidiary, Western Operations, Inc., of discharging the 160 employees solely because of their ages during a three-year period that ended Dec. 31, 1973. Company officials contended that they had done nothing wrong but chose to sign a consent order rather than fight. Labor Secretary Peter Brennan, 56, hailed the scope of the settlement, which covers workers in eight Western states whose former jobs ranged from assistant service-station manager to executives; some earned about $40,000 a year. Individual awards to the employees will run from just under $10,000 to more than $50,000. Those figures...