Word: factly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first time outlined the situations in which workplace drug testing would be permissible. The court approved testing for railway workers involved in major accidents and for customs employees seeking jobs that involve narcotics interdiction or require them to carry a gun. Some civil libertarians were encouraged by the fact that the rulings were narrowly crafted to apply only to well-defined groups of workers, leaving open the possibility that the court would not approve more wide-ranging testing...
...Reagan or George Bush into a courtroom grilling about the Iran-contra scandal? Last week Poindexter's lawyer, Frederick Robinson, insisted that Reagan had ordered the admiral to tell Congress that the NSC staff was not violating restrictions on U.S. aid to the contras at a time when, in fact, it was. He also contended that Poindexter had briefed Bush about each White House meeting on Iran-contra that the then Vice President had missed. If so, Bush's knowledge might be far more extensive than he has admitted...
...canceled in anticipation of the drive's arrival, which produced something unknown in days of yore -- gridlock. One human death (a 68-year-old spectator suffered a heart attack) occurred during the drive, and half a dozen injuries were reported. Another casualty, noted by few, was the historic fact that the legendary killer winter of 1886-87 wiped out the open-range cattle business in Montana. Great long-distance cattle drives were fading memories before Montana became a state...
...Harvard version of the Donahue Show--Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel's Moral Reasoning 22, "Justice"--also won't be offered this year. In fact, only one Moral Reasoning course is scheduled for the fall, although there are two new offerings in the spring--Moral Reasoning 38, "Autonomy and Alienation," and Moral Reasoning 40, "Confucian Humanism and Moral Community...
...fact for students is this: a community does not learn to resolve the past's legacy of anger and injustice by ignoring the problem in the present. We cannot understand our neighbor if we never see him. That only 1.8 percent of Harvard's just under 400 senior faculty are Black is troubling, nearly outrageous...