Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Federal District Court has dismissed a former undergraduate's lawsuit against Yale University for lacking appropriate procedures for handling sexual harassment complaints...
...Haven Federal District Court Judge Ellen B. Burns ruled, after examining the evidence, that no sexual proposition was made, that Price's course grade was not affected by anything other than an evaluation of her academic performance, and that the manner in which Yale dealt with the complaint, while ad hoc, was appropriate. William Doyle, attorney for Yale University, said yesterday...
...plane crash, (or if Earl Weaver sniff too much glue), then Don Zimmer's beady eyes might finally sit still at the end of the season. Besides, Zimmer is the right man for the job. In the American League East, a rodent's instincts are more reliable than a court of kings...
...would have little direct, short-term impact on the economy. It will take time for the biggest construction contracts to be let out, for the huge rail and mining jobs to get under way. Actually building a synfuel plant could require five years or more, and environmental objections and court protests might drag out projects even longer. The size of the spending appears smaller when reckoned at an average $14 billion a year, spread out over ten years. That is a relatively small part of an economy that now produces $2.3 trillion worth of goods and services annually...
This month Florida Federal District Judge George Carr ordered that a diploma be awarded to Gary, and to others among the 3,445 blacks and 1,342 whites who flunked the literacy test after three tries but were otherwise eligible for graduation. In the first federal court ruling on the new wave of minimal competency graduation requirements, which have been adopted in various forms by 17 states, Judge Carr upheld the graduation requirements in general, but ruled that the Florida program was imposed too hastily. Florida's mandatory literacy test was announced in 1977, while this year...