Word: code
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...government position held since 1975 that Title IX forbids sex discrimination against staff members and faculty as well as students at schools and colleges that receive federal aid. Justice Department attorneys have presented the previous interpretation in a case pending before the United States Supreme Court, saying the federal code "unambiguously prohibits sex discrimination against employees...
Despite the government's reassurances, leaders of various women's groups have denounced the proposed changes as the first indication that the administration will try to eliminate Title IX altogether. "We suspect there is much more in the works, including the dismantling of the entire code." Ann Simon, a staff attorney for the Legal Defense and Education Fund of the National Organization of Women (NOW), said yesterday...
Keller singled out a formula used to compute whether schools are "underutilizing" women as one aspect of the existing federal code administrators in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have challenged...
...longer a cake matures, the more it relaxes," Avery says. "If we'd known last year that he was going to get married, we would have baked it last year." Avery hand-picked every cashew, cherry, walnut and currant for the cake in a two-day session code-named "Operation Sultana." He added a little Navy rum ("Just for flavor. You don't want people to get paralytic") and baked the largest layer for 8½ hours. The result, which was stashed behind a locked door at the Royal Navy Cookery School, measured...
...though she chose to have "obey" deleted from the marriage service, she has not yet dealt successfully with the problem of monarchical chapeaux. Women of the royal family are all encouraged and expected to wear hats for formal occasions. Lady Diana's early efforts to comply with this code have resulted in a couple of wowzers, including one that looked as if the mother ship from Close Encounters of the Third Kind had made a forced landing on her noggin. Under such circumstances, photos sometimes catch fleeting moments when a kind of uncertainty, even a suggestion of strain, seems...