Word: giant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This gets to be like a giant mosh pit. People yell [and] raise their hands...
...giant has come under fire from national civil rights groups recently for allegedly discriminatory personnel policies and racist comments made by several top executives. Late last week, Texaco agreed to a $176.1 million settlement of the claims, the largest such settlement in American history...
...dethroning Dan Rostenkowski, overlord of the House Ways and Means Committee. On Tuesday, though, Flanagan fell to Rod Blagojevich and a Chicago Democratic machine no longer burdened with defending a Representative under a 17-count federal corruption indictment, as Rostenkowski had been. On the other hand, the biggest giant killer of them all, George Nethercutt, held on to the Washington State seat he had snatched from Tom Foley, House Speaker until...
...conduct, our core values and the law." The company launched its own investigation of the incident, and a federal grand jury will consider possible destruction of evidence. Such revelations would be embarrassing for any corporation that, like Texaco, claims to be an equal-opportunity employer. But for the giant oil company (1995 revenues: $36.8 billion), they were especially painful because they suggest that Texaco lacks the ability to learn from its past mistakes, no matter how costly. In 1991 Texaco paid a record $17.7 million in compensatory and punitive damages to Janella Sue Martin, who sued for sex discrimination after...
...black jelly beans." Under the settlement, Texaco will pay 1,500 present and former black employees who brought suit $115 million in cash, will provide $26.1 million in pay raises over five years for black employees and will pay $35 million for sensitivity and diversity training programs. The oil giant also agreed to subject itself to a review by an "Equity and Tolerance Task Force" that will attempt to identify and eliminate racial bias among Texaco workers. "With this litigation behind us, we can now move forward on our broader, urgent mission to make Texaco a model of workplace opportunity...