Word: firm
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...Powell was a true conservative and a product of Mr. Jefferson's Virginia. Why, then, did he join the majority in Roe v. Wade? His answer wasn't about constitutional theory or the "Framers' Intent." Instead, he told the story of a young, black messenger at his old law firm in Richmond. The youth came to him terrified that he would be arrested for the death of his girlfriend, whom he'd helped get an illegal abortion at the hands of a "back-alley butcher." Powell was moved by the youth's dilemma--and by the injustice and risk that...
...reason may be that more and more corporations are writing into employment contracts a clause under which the employee agrees never to file an age- (or race- or sex-) discrimination suit. Jeffrey Taren, a Chicago attorney who specializes in employment law, says the number of age-bias cases his firm has agreed to take is actually declining. Not, he hastens to add, because there is less bias to fight. Rather, word has got around about how hard it is to win an age-discrimination case, so "people feel it is futile to contest the actions of their employer...
...three-month period this year, Cottin reports, he sent out more than 400 applications, including many for positions for which he thinks he is overqualified. But in the past five years he has been able to find only part-time consulting work, some of it reviewing documents for law firms (he has a law degree) for $22 an hour--a far cry from the $100,000 or so a year he earned in his last full-time job as director of external relations for EG&G Inc., a big global-technology firm. Even some parts of the Federal Government discriminate...
...account with which she was somehow connected. But in a five-minute interview, the boss told the executive, who was then 47, that he was being fired for "lack of performance" (though he claims he had received only stellar performance reviews during his 12 years with the firm) and that he had one day to clean out his office. The fired executive found out later that the woman was head of the agency's human-resources department. He presumes she was there so that in any ensuing legal action the company would have two witnesses to what was said...
...obvious conclusion is that neither Yeltsin nor Chernomyrdin nor any of the other figures spinning in and out of the government's revolving door have a firm plan to quell the economic and political chaos. And even if one did, he probably could not muster the political support to make his program stick. There is, at the core of the Yeltsin regime, a vacuum of power and an absence of leadership. Yeltsin seems to be President in name only, a figure so diminished that he was forced onto national TV last Friday to insist, "I'm not going to resign...