Word: courtly
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...officials offered to settle out of court, but Bluhdorn, calling the allegations "totally unwarranted and outrageous," vowed to do battle before a judge. More than honor is at stake. If the SEC prevails, it could order G & W to hire an outside auditor to fully investigate the company's affairs, recruit a more independent board of directors and adopt new management procedures...
...High court considers another affirmative-action program
...third time in two years, the Supreme Court is deciding a major reverse discrimination claim. The issue this time is not the permissibility of racial quotas for professional school admissions (as in the Bakke decision of 1978) or of company job-training programs (as in last summer's Weber ruling), but of a congressional award of a share of federally financed local public works contracts to minority-controlled businesses. The case, on which the nine high court Justices heard oral arguments last week, should help to further define the still murky limits to which affirmative-action programs...
...Government contracts, Maryland Democrat Parren Mitchell proposed an amendment guaranteeing such firms 10% of the $4 billion. The amendment passed, to the distress of the construction industry. All told, 27 suits were filed charging that the 10% set-aside was unconstitutional. Fullilove, the case that the Supreme Court chose to hear, was brought by H. Earl Fullilove and other officials of several New York contractors' associations. For them, it had been a rocky road to Washington: two federal district courts had upheld the program...
...principle, affirmative action has four apparently solid votes on the court, at least if Bakke and Weber are a guide: Justices Brennan, Marshall, White and Blackmun. The decisive fifth vote might depend on the particular facts of this case. Constitutional Scholar Laurence Tribe thinks this vote could be attracted by the fact that the set-aside is "more of a carrot than a stick" to help minorities...