Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Watkins called discrimination the "foremost obstacle to progress" in combatting AIDS. "People simply will not come forward to be tested or will not supply names of sexual contacts for notification," he said, "if they feel they will lose their jobs and homes based on an HIV-positive test." The chairman's recommendation: that the President issue an Executive Order extending federal antidiscrimination laws already on the books to include those infected with the AIDS virus. In Congress, conservative lawmakers, who vigorously oppose steps that would confer special rights on homosexuals, the group most directly affected by AIDS, promptly voiced their...
...come in the freshman class bond very quickly, and everyone becomes like a sister or a brother to you," she says. "So that means that dating is out the window. The Black community is so small that anybody who dated anybody was probably your friend, and you would probably feel very awkward, going behind the person that they dated...
Assistant Professor of Japanese Haruko Iwasaki says that although she does not feel she has been a victim of discrimination, a distinct discrepancy is evident in the system. While most of the tenured faculty members in her department are white males, Iwasaki says those at the junior faculty level "are mostly women. The language side is 90 percent women and minority...
Gertner cautions that the hardest choice when suing Harvard is to decide whether to file in state or federal court. "The federal bench has a large number of Harvard graduates," Gertner said. "What will someone educated at Harvard Law School and Harvard College feel about this case? You need to take that into account...
...feel that the jury understood it, and with Judge Garrity's most recent decision that he's beginning to understand it too," said Walters, who has said throughout the trial that her goal throughout the proceedings has been to make people understand that sexual discrimination does not have to be sexual in nature...