Word: employers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suffered with them-and with less patience than they have-I appreciate the light you have thrown on the nasty discrimination that keeps an expert pilot from his work. How can we talk of equality of opportunity in a country where a man has to wait six years, employ lawyers, and appeal to the federal courts to convince employers (supposedly eagerly seeking qualified pilots) that he is more competent than other job applicants? (THE REV.) JOSEPH H. FIGHTER, S.J. Loyola University New Orleans
...TIME is to be commended for opening its pages to an examination of academic freedom [May 101. However, it is unfortunate that your article, at one point, may create the impression that college professors employ academic freedom "to license oddball behavior" or to "give special sanction to a teacher's statements when made off campus or outside his field" or to "excuse incompetence, or exempt professors from criticism." College professors have not asked for the kind of exemption you describe. They do insist that they be protected from unwarranted assaults when they teach or do research in controversial areas...
Blue Cross, which pays hospital bills, and Blue Shield, its counterpart for covering doctors' bills, both employ the traditional insurance concept of protecting the individual by spreading the risk of financial loss among many people...
...unaccountable by ordinary experience. As a simple illustration, he cites the phenomenon of post-hypnotic suggestion. In addition, he refers to the work of Freud, Janet, and Prince on hysteria. Though James explicity credits this research with shedding "a wholly new light upon our natural constitution," he refuses to employ it to "explain away" conversion...
Mafatlal's jute plant and ten textile mills employ 25,000 Indians, produce 4% of India's cloth, and specialize in the low-cost cottons that make up the traditional dress of most Indians. Dissatisfied with too much dependence on textiles, Mafatlal recently linked up with West Germany's Farbwerke Hoechst to build a $21 million, nine-plant petrochemical complex that will be India's largest. By bringing a much-needed new industry to India, he hopes to dispel the notion, widely held among his countrymen, that all industrialists are merely greedy. Says Mafatlal...