Word: firm
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...lower courts reasoned that employers could use affirmative action only to remedy past wrongs. But making an employer show past discrimination puts the firm between a rock and a hard place. . If an employer gives preference to non-white workers without admitting past errors, it opens itself up to suits from passed over white workers like Weber. But if the employer admits past discrimination, it invites suits for substantial back pay from nonwhites. Allowing the decision to stand, argued the Justice Department in its petition, "can be expected to chill voluntary affirmative-action programs throughout the country." The Equal Employment...
...head off the recession or aim at a vigorous expansion once it ends. "It would be a horrendous error to try to fight the recession by anything other than minor palliatives," says Democrat Eckstein, who heads Data Resources Inc., the nation's leading economic analysis firm. Adds David Grove, a consultant to IBM who sometimes sides with the liberals: "The problem that the country has to face is whether it really wants to get the basic rate of inflation down very substantially, to cut it, say, in half. There is no way to accomplish that without going through...
...last winter as a fill-in replacement for the fallen Bert Lance, and only recently seems to have taken effective hold of his department. Staffers detect a new crispness in Mclntyre's decisions and report that he often backs up his rulings by saying: "Fm holding firm on that?let him take it [on appeal] to the President...
...should do everything in its power to sustain him. Although Helms points no public fingers at past failures that produced the current upheaval, it is obvious that he finds Washington's response lethargic and uncomprehending. Not only would he get tough with the Russians, he would also be firm with the British, French and Germans, who have an immense stake in Middle East oil. The Israelis, too, have a huge interest in Iran and her oil; surely they could find a way to help...
...nowadays, it is because the nation is in the grip of what can only be called convention fever. The symptoms: an eruption of hats, badges, buttons, sashes, brochures, luggage-strewn hotel lobbies, stackable ball room chairs, green baize tabletops, insulated plastic water pitchers, WELCOME banners, note-festooned message boards, firm handshakes, hearty guffaws, setups in the hospitality suite and dark circles under the eyes. The diagnosis: an insatiable urge to meet and greet, gather and blather with one's suppliers, customers, lodge members, old friends, perfect strangers, peers, inferiors and superiors. The cure: none yet discovered...