Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hicks, a union steward, said he was unfairly singled out for discipline because he is Black and because he was a union shop steward who spoke out against mistreatment of employees. He filed a complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging discrimination in January, three months before his firing. Michael P. Berry, the director of dining services, has strongly denied the cook's charges...
...judge back in 1980, appointed by President Carter to the U.S. Court of Appeals, after she gained national acclaim as counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union. She had won five landmark cases before the Supreme Court and had taken a novel approach to expanding the scope of the equal-protection clause by suing on behalf of men in some cases. She argued, for instance, that widowers as well as widows were entitled to Social Security survivor payments and challenged an Oklahoma law that allowed women, but not men, to buy alcoholic beverages at 18. She also won cases arguing...
...assumed on the Appeals Court (she has voted as often with the Republican appointees as with the Carter appointees). Women's groups are also worried over criticism the pro- choice Ginsburg leveled at the Roe v. Wade decision in a speech last March. She had contended that equal protection, rather than privacy, would have been better grounds and created less of a backlash. The strong reaction surprised her. Says Stanford law professor Barbara Babcock, who had dinner with her shortly after the speech: "She was hurt by people who should have been her friends...
...cream is rich, and, on quality alone, (gaspl) is the equal of sainted Herrell's. But Steve's has too many distractions. Under the same roof there's the Church Street Cafe, a well meaning sandwich place that gives you a mediocre lunch for about six bucks. And the atmosphere isn't there. Some nights, in fact, you'll forget you're in Harvard Square because there's no line...
...Houston, Korean-controlled nude-modeling studios have been supplied by flesh traders who bribe American soldiers based in South Korea. The G.I.s are typically paid up to $5,000 to marry Koreans and bring them back to Fort Hood, Texas, where they divorce them for an equal sum. The women, who speak no English, are then forced into brothels in Houston, Detroit and other cities. Compelled to repay the marriage fees and plane fares, and threatened with violence, "these women live in fear," says Harris County civil prosecutor Terry O'Rourke. A local crackdown has sizably cut down the traffic...