Word: crude
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...work at this and other auto plants are willing to shoulder some boorish behavior in addition to the tough, sometimes monotonous job on the line. Others are not. As early as 1992, female employees at Mitsubishi began to complain of sexual misbehavior on the factory floor. They reported obscene, crude sketches of genital organs and sex acts, and names of female workers scratched into unpainted car bodies moving along the assembly line. Women were called sluts, whores and bitches and subjected to groping, forced sex play and male flashing. Explicit sexual graffiti such as KILL THE SLUT MARY were scrawled...
...rightly points out, first, that a fair admissions program does not look at numbers alone, and second, that black SAT scores have been gradually converging with white scores over the last 20 years. And Mansfield's suggestion that black "underperformance" may be "inherited" is so groundless, crude and inappropriate that a serious response here is impossible...
...subordinates was Ted, who had left Montana briefly in the hope of earning some money. According to investigators, at the factory Ted began dating a female supervisor. (A fellow employee told TIME it was a single date.) After their relationship went nowhere, he responded by composing crude limericks about her and posting them around the plant. When David ordered him to stop, Ted stuck one onto the very machine his brother was operating. David instantly fired him. Ted had been on the job just four months. Soon after, he wrote the woman a letter in which he said...
...Russek accuses Dean Lewis of disrespecting and disregarding the entire student body, of insulting the Harvard undergraduate woman who was attacked recently, of encouraging sexism at Harvard, of having weak and crude character and ethics and of being ineffective and incompetent...
Aggressive unilateralism, while tempting, will only destroy the current liberal system of trade. Mr. Whitman should reconsider before suggesting that the crude protectionism and anti-free trade tirades of Pat Buchanan "do point in the right direction." They do not. --Chuanfei Chin...