Word: broads
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...decision that has broad implications for older workers in many occupations, the U.S. Supreme Court last week upheld the claim of Criswell and the others, ruling unanimously that employers must meet a stringent legal standard before they can institute blanket retirement rules. Being younger than 60 is not a "bona fide occupational qualification," wrote Justice John Paul Stevens, unless it can be shown that all flight engineers over that age present a safety risk or that it is "highly impractical" to make individual judgments about their health...
...window idea of realist painting to an extreme. The frame is part of the work, and within it -- always a wide, heavily molded, dark construction, its inner edges toned so that a white glow seems to be emanating from the picture itself -- one catches a glimpse of, say, a broad horizon, a band of achingly pure and silent sky, the trunk of a pine. The frame becomes a prison for a sign of traditional vastness, the 19th century view of limitless America. But look closer and the ideal landscape is fatally cankered, the America of Natty Bumppo is no more...
...especially upsetting to the vast majority of businessmen who have spotless records and nothing to hide. "It's scary, isn't | it?" says David Ransburg, who owns a business in Peoria, Ill. "What I resent is that all of us who operate honestly and ethically get indicted in the broad sweep." Both businessmen and consumers are asking why the new outbreak of lawlessness is occurring, and the Reagan Administration is stepping up efforts to bring it under control. Says Stanton Wheeler, director of Yale University's studies on white-collar crime: "People are increasingly realizing that the whole economic system...
Nine-year Corporation veteran Robert G. Stone Jr. '45, chairman and chief executive officer of Houston based Kirby Exploration Co., an oil and gas producer, is a director of Corning Glass Works in Corning. N.Y., a broad-based electronics manufacturer with 30,500 employees and revenues last year of $1.59 billion. According to the Investor Responsibility Research Center in Washington, Corning maintains investments in South Africa. Further information on the company's investments there was not available last week...
...less than a year after Harvard instituted broad guidelines for dealing with such incidents, the University's role in the February 5 resignation of 40-year-old Professor of Government Douglas A. Hibbs Jr. remains shrouded in mystery...