Word: counsels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mitsubishi's outraged and outsized response to the charges has sensationalized the case. Led by a brash general counsel, Gary Schultz, about 2,000 workers--given the day off for the purpose--demonstrated with supporters outside the Chicago offices of the EEOC last week. "Two, four, six, eight," they chanted, "we're here to set the story straight." "Do we have sex on the line?" one man shouted. "Do we get naked on the line?" "No!" the crowd roared. Some waved placards; others unfurled a long banner that read EEOC PLEASE STOP SLANDERING...
Perhaps that explains why M.M.M.A. responded so aggressively to the charges. General counsel Schultz, a company vice president, denied the commission's allegations, calling them a rehash of the "old charges" contained in Benassi's civil suit...
Sometimes, the capital's barometric pressure takes a sudden turn. One night you go to bed and independent counsel Kenneth Starr is a straight-shooting, courtly lawyer who can rise above politics. The next day you get up and Starr is Clinton's sworn enemy, with ties to the tobacco industry and right-wing foundations that would benefit greatly were Clinton to be crippled by Starr's findings on Whitewater and lose re-election. Clinton wouldn't touch a question about Starr until last Thursday. Then, asked whether Starr should step down, he said, "The facts are what they...
...this? Why now? Starr's conflicts have long been known: at the time of his appointment, he represented the very company, International Paper, that helped cause the removal of the first special counsel because it had sold land to the Whitewater Development Corp.; he has ties to groups bent on defeating Clinton; and on the eve of his appointment, he was considering filing an amicus brief in support of Paula Jones' right to sue the President...
...continued lack of a consistent administrative policy with regard to complaints of racial harassment. Over the years, the Dean of Students, the Dean of the College, the Harvard Police Department, House Masters, the Office of Race Relations and Minority Affairs, the Administrative Board and the Bureau of Study Counsel have overlapped and even worked at cross-purposes in dealing with student grievances...