Word: extends
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Miller advocates that managers create a climate in which employees can feel free to criticize. One step might be to appoint a company ombudsman with power to act on employees' complaints and to start his own investigations. Another would be for a company's directors to extend protection against job loss or demotion to employees who come before the board with disclosures. Some consumer advocates have suggested that Congress legislate protection against reprisal for wage earners who report the unlawful acts of their company, or testify before a-court or Government agency...
Harvard's lightweight crew, the class of Eastern rowing over the last three years, faces a heavy rebuilding program this Spring if the Crimson hopes to extend Harvard dominance another season...
Taking Stock. Dollars are distrusted because foreigners already have so many that they cannot use. Foreign central banks have more than $50 billion in dollar holdings-money that the U.S. poured abroad in past years to invest in European companies, to finance the Viet Nam War and to extend foreign aid. Since the U.S. stopped selling gold for dollars last August, the banks cannot do much more than sit on their inconvertible dollars. They cannot be used to repay loans from the International Monetary Fund, such as a $1 billion British debt that falls due in June, because...
...same category as slaves. Early Roman law candidly referred to the "perpetual tutelage of women" and considered them to be under the manus (hand) of their fathers or husbands-one basis for the custom of bestowing the "hand" of a daughter in marriage. Though later Roman law began to extend a few rights to women, the coming of the Dark Ages took them back to the status of chattels. Passing through canon law into English common law and thence to the U.S., such a concept supported the classic Blackstone definition of "coverture," a doctrine that has survived in part...
...week, specifically, the Supreme Court upheld a state's right to require a married woman to use her husband's name on her driver's license. Most states allow a husband to sue for loss of consortium if his wife is injured, while only a minority extend a parallel right to the wife when the husband is incapacitated. North Carolina and Missouri even allow a woman to defend herself against a criminal charge by arguing that her husband ordered her to commit the crime...