Word: filed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...abolishing affirmative action as it now stands, especially those parts of it that deal with the establishment of "goals." Congressmen seem to be afraid that those goals are actually quotas and that quotas significantly reduce considerations of merit in the hiring process. The goals system--which requires employers to file with the government numerical expectations of how well they think they will fare in increasing their minority and female representation--has drawn particular criticism from academics who see it as an abrogation of the pure scholarly values that should prevail in a university...
...little after 1 o'clock on Dec. 13, 1948, a 22-year-old American file clerk from the U.S. embassy in Moscow named Alexander Dolgun strolled down Gorky Street on his way to lunch. Suddenly a tall, good-looking stranger hailed him like a long-lost friend. Alex's purported kiryukha (old buddy) was a major in the MGB, the Ministry of State Security, who promptly took him to jail. What began as a delayed luncheon lasted seven years and eight months. For the first 18 months the MGB tried unsuccessfully to force their prisoner to confess that...
...undergraduates rarely make it to breakfast here, which means that by 11:30, hunger begins to rival academic curiosity. Animal appetites often prevail, so that the weak begin trickling out around 11:50, hoping to beat the rush at lunch. Students with 12:00 classes either desert outright or file glumly into their classrooms and slump deeply in their chairs, glaring at the professor as if to say, "This lecture had better be good...
...correlation to the election results. As an NLRB official said last week, "People will sign anything, but voting to join a union is a much more serious commitment." Perhaps the best way to gauge the probable result is to try and determine the degree of rank-and-file participation in the organizing committee's work. Using this standard, the chances for District 65 at the Medical Area seem quite good. Membership meetings are generally well attended--some have attracted nearly 200 employees--and policy motions often come from people not in leadership positions...
...great many illegals do not file income tax returns and also manage to have only a minuscule portion of their paychecks withheld by claiming more dependents than they actually have. At the same time, they benefit as much as many of their neighbors do from tax-supported social services, including schools and hospitals...