Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week, Harvard Real Estate (HRE), which manages the University's non-academic holdings, reached a settlement with a gay student and the Boston Fair Housing Commission to disregard marital status and sexual orientation in permitting the "domestic partner" of a Harvard affiliate to live in University-owned housing...
...Platner said despite the ordinance, she knew of no complaints about HRE discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation. Officials at the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and the Somerville Fair Housing Commission, where HRE operates some affiliated housing, said they also knew of no complaints...
...unions said that the best solution would be for Harvard to maintain ties to the firm and try to help the workers gain a fair contract...
...Tory "Well" Fair. Or Tory Fair "Well...
...tobacco companies contend that they have a right to demand fair competition. Said Trade Representative Hills last week: "Where other nations permit local cigarettes to be advertised and sold, we say there may as well be U.S. cigarettes because we believe in nondiscrimination." Cigarette makers also insist that they are not inspiring new smokers but offering better choices for people who already have a taste for nicotine. Says Brenda Follmer, a spokeswoman for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco International, which sells the Winston , and Camel brands: "People say we are trying to make the Asians light up. But they're already lighting...