Word: equalization
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Retaliation is something of a pattern within the ATF, according to a recent internal investigation by the Treasury Inspector General's office. In a report sent to Magaw last year, the investigators said they found that of 370 Equal Employment Opportunity complaints filed by employees, 105 resulted in charges being filed with Internal Affairs against the complainers or their supporting witnesses. In 54 of these cases, Internal Affairs launched full investigations. The report cited an array of management practices that "created at least a perception among some ATF employees that managers abused their authority by retaliating, harassing or intimidating...
...National Archives, Clinton said: "We should have a simple slogan: mend it, but don't end it." Making a start, the President directed federal departments to end or revamp any program that "creates a quota, creates preferences for unqualified individuals, creates reverse discrimination or continues even after its equal opportunity purposes have been achieved." Though popular Republican attacks on quotas clearly forced the action,TIME's James Carneysays the White House decided the President could make the best of a no-win situation by holding the line: "Clinton realized it would be to his advantage not to offend...
After this experience, I began to pay even closer attention to the ways in which nominal accessibility does not always translate into real equal opportunity. Forced to use crutches this summer after surgery on an old ankle injury, I have been trying to avoid stairs and other similar challenges as much as possible...
...these groups will likely be double happy if the Republican efforts to hand off a balanced budget amendment to the states finally succeed. The balanced budget initiative is touted as the quintessential embodiment of the "people's will"--more than 80 percent of Americans support it. Yet with an equal percentage also opposing most major budget cuts, the mandate for such an amendment is hardly clear...
Regardless of how the suit is resolved, the clear loser will be Tepperman's stricken wife, the victim of an equal-opportunity disease that shows no regard for bottom lines or other totems of corporate life. The winners, of course, are those who enjoy the intoxicating spectacle of millionaires and billionaires wallowing in the mud. The trial is expected to last a month...