Word: complaints
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...defendant's answer in the matter of Jones v. Clinton. The President's lawyer is no longer out to bury the case, he says, but to win it. Smelling trouble for Jones, Bennett is talking witnesses and affidavits these days, not negotiations or settlements. In his answer to Jones' complaint, he denied her charges and asked the court to dismiss the case. Failing that, he requested a conference to set a trial date. "There's no dragging this out," says Bennett, bouncing in his office chair, his suspenders not up to the task of containing his shirt. "I'm doing...
...else, is primarily an issue of dollars and cents--as in the case of the $176 million that Texaco will pay out to settle a class-action discrimination claim, or the $500 million being demanded from Bell Atlantic in a suit filed by African-American employees last month. Their complaint, which so far incorporates the charges of 126 workers, runs the entire gamut of possible racial bias on the job, from the crudest slurs--an insulting "Nigger Application for Employment" was left on a copier--to more subtle forms of discrimination. Daniel Clark, a finance manager with an M.B.A., charges...
...unfair labor practice strikers" and displace any replacement workers hired since the initial walkout. Approximately 2,500 workers participated in the strike and about 1,200 replacement workers took their place soon afterward. Company officials said they would appeal the ruling. Wilks' decision came on an unfair labor practice complaint brought by National Labor Relations Board's regional director, William Schaub. Among the union allegations involved were that management bargained unfairly by improperly imposing a merit pay plan on News employees before negotiations had reached an impasse, and that the company reneged on an agreement to bargain jointly with...
That may have made it all the more painful for him when his mother's new marriage began dissolving almost immediately. A few weeks after the marriage was annulled, Turner was arrested in connection with a complaint filed by Qubilah in which she claimed he had pushed her out of a car during an argument. Soon after, police were called again when Qubilah reported that her son had attacked her. When the officers arrived, Malcolm told them he was angry about her drinking. She insisted that her son was schizophrenic but had not taken his medication in two years. Police...
...Avoid complaint. It only sours the puss, and things are not going to get better anyway...