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...international convention of the powerful Teamsters Union are not used to sitting through scoldings from their guest speakers, especially from one appointed by a President who has twice won their endorsement. But a scolding is precisely what some 2,000 Teamsters representatives got from Labor Secretary William Brock as they gathered in Las Vegas last week. Listing "mobbed-up locals" and "pension-fund abuse" as just two of the union's problems, the Labor Secretary bluntly declared that the Teamsters have "lost a great deal of public trust." Brock, who served as chairman of the Republican National Committee from...
...deleting clumsy sentences, calling up notes. The exclamations of wonderment among American journalists when computer terminals were introduced to U.S. newspapers a decade ago are now being heard for the first time at a London paper, and there can be no turning back. "The computers are wonderful," says George Brock, editor of the Times' op-ed page. "You wonder how you ever operated without them...
...doing business with the Government to hire more women and minority employees. Attorney General Edwin Meese has long contended that the numerical hiring goals established in response to Executive Order No. 11246 create a racial quota system and a form of "reverse discrimination" against white men. Labor Secretary William Brock and others who support the order have sought to stymie the Attorney General's persistent efforts to dismantle affirmative action and make it voluntary...
Last week Meese and Brock appeared on the verge of a compromise. Together they are expected to propose that the President sign a new Executive Order specifically barring minority quotas in hiring. However, the new directive will not eliminate the goals and timetables that Meese wants abolished. Since regulations issued under the current Executive Order already essentially proscribe racial quotas, requiring only that companies make "good faith efforts" to meet the hiring goals, the new proposal would result in almost no change in the current state of affirmative-action...
...fiat came after Meese's Justice Department launched a surprise attack in August by submitting a draft of a presidential order that effectively branded Labor Department hiring goals as illegal quotas. The tactic raised such a ruckus that the Justice Department judiciously retreated. Regan then told Meese and Brock to come to an agreement on their dispute before taking it to the President...