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Because discrimination extends beyond economics into the sphere of social and cultural life, offering solutions to the problem can prove difficult for the labor economist. The complexity of the issue may even deter scholars from tackling problems of gender on the policy level...
When the Southern Christian Leadership Conference failed to persuade the Dallas city council to stop opposing a plan for increased minority representation, the local chapter resorted to tougher methods: it mounted a boycott last week to deter tourists and conventions from coming to the city. The strategy, though hardly new, is gaining in popularity. Increasingly, national groups and associations have sought to punish and pressure cities by moving their conventions and meetings elsewhere...
...point. Punitive damages are intended as a form of quasi-criminal retribution against wrongdoers in civil cases. They exist to deter future misdeeds. "Punitive damages are not intended to compensate the victim," says Edward Cooper, a professor at the University of Michigan law school. "Instead, they are meant to punish especially bad conduct." Such judgments are most often awarded in product-liability and personal-injury cases...
...true that increased lighting and fewer high bushes would deter a lot of criminals from their activities," Morse said, "but people at Harvard should take it upon themselves to walk in groups at night, lock up their property and put their belongings in lockers or safe places. And Harvard likes to maintain a happy balance between appearance of the campus and its safety...
Brown's Democrats, who control both houses, predict other dire consequences: a brain drain that is bound to deter the best and brightest from working in the statehouse, and a weakening of the legislature as it confronts some of its own ex-staffers now in the ranks of special-interest lobbies. One surviving expert, respected Democratic economist Steven Thompson, 49, predicts that when the term limits start taking effect in 1996, the legislative branch could even suffer constitutionally. Reason: the inexperience of rotating members will prevent it from holding up its end of the checks-and-balances system. So vehement...