Word: consents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most steel mills there are basically three kinds of jobs: well-paid craft and production posts for whites, dirtier and lesser-paid jobs for minorities and clerical jobs for women. A landmark consent decree signed last week by the United Steelworkers of America and nine major companies* promises to change that situation. The agreement, which ends a Government suit against the companies and the union, is the first job-discrimination settlement to cover almost an entire industry...
...fund, means that the workers are actually getting a 7-per-cent wage increase in each of the next two years. The strikers have a different viewpoint. The plan under which Harvard and the employees gave matching payments into a fund was taken away from the workers without their consent. The printers will receive neither the funds that Harvard paid into that plan in their name nor the interest on the funds which they deposited with the University. A printer's only reward for giving the University more money to extend its investments is a dollar-for-dollar repayment upon...
Corporation members say that the Board of Overseers has the real authority, since all Corporation decisions must receive Overseer consent. But the unwieldy size of that board and the infrequency of its meetings--generally only seven times a year compared to the twice-monthly Corporation meetings--make it more of an alumni check on the system and a vehicle for communicating their sentiments than a real determinant of University policy...
...Chester, appeared at his door with a temporary restraining order forbidding him to show the manuscript to the publisher until the CIA had examined it. The agency based its position on the contract restricting present or past employees from revealing anything about agency operations without first getting its consent. Marchetti phoned the American Civil Liberties Union, which went to trial on his behalf. It argued that the CIA was exercising prior restraint-preventing publication-and thereby violating the First Amendment. But the U.S. District Court Judge Albert V. Bryan Jr. ruled that the First Amendment did not apply...
Rape and Torture. Convinced that they narrowly escaped execution by leftist extremists last September, the junta leaders are determined to root out all traces of opposition. Midnight arrests still take place, and torture is, by common consent, a tool of the government's newly centralized intelligence apparatus. Its most common forms are electric shock and beatings; with women prisoners, multiple rape has been used to force confessions. "The members of this government think they are going to be murdered in their beds," explains one diplomat. "They see no reason to go easy on anyone who might have something...