Word: formalisms
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...landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act outlawed racial discrimination in the workplace, and the creation of federal agencies to punish offending businesses added teeth to the legislation. But even with formal restraints lifted, the 30 percent wage gap between similarly-qualified black and white workers has shown no sign of closing over the past generation...
Yale was also cited for allowing students to work with highly explosive wastes without any formal risk training...
...impetus for change is coming from the Advisory Council on Social Security, a group appointed every four years to monitor the system. A formal report isn't due until May, but Senate hearings on the council's recommendations begin this week anyway. Split on the specifics, the 13-member panel is nonetheless unanimous on the need for radical change. "If we stick to the plain old pay-as-you-go system, we'll have to raise taxes or cut benefits," says the group's chairman, Edward Gramlich, dean of the University of Michigan's public-policy school. "Either...
...press asked for what it got. Just like the White House Correspondents' Dinner later in the spring, this affair seeks out performers to act as surrogates to tweak, if not debase, people in power. But for the first time, the correspondents' association sent a formal letter of apology to the President. "What did the organization think they were getting when they invited Imus? I fault them," said Tom Brokaw. abc's Jackie Judd, one of the dinner's organizers, said, "We wanted some discomfort, but not that much." After the show, White House press secretary Michael McCurry called C-SPAN...
LONDON: The European Commission appears to be backing off a surreptitious announcement Monday night that it would ban British beef from the 15-nation European Union. A formal decision, due Wednesday, could still go either way as popular fears of so-called Mad Cow Disease mount. Late Monday, the Commission's veterinary committee voted over British objections to ban meat and other products made from cattle. Soon after, Commission President Jacques Santer agreed to a request from Prime Minister John Major to reconsider the issue based on more scientific evidence. Tuesday, the Commission said its decision had not been final...