Word: harassement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sorry, hell. Feeling the heat last week, the N.R.A. backed off its phenomenally successful recent fund-raising letter, the one blasting federal cops as "jackbooted government thugs . who, in Clinton's Administration . have the government's go-ahead to harass, intimidate, even murder law-abiding citizens...
...mugged by Ernest Bugger (Mike McGraw), who takes his wallet, money, overcoat and the flowers he was going to give Angela. Ernest is immediately arrested, but the process Zed goes through between the arrest and the actual trial is a trial in and of itself for Zed. The police harass him, he is mistaken for a transvestite and his students harangue him. Everything culminates in the final scene when Ernest is tried but Zed is prosecuted. Chaos ensues...
...White House today complained that "overzealous" congressional staffers are trying to "intimidate" and "harass" the Administration with frequent, voluminous information requests. Presidential spokesman Mike McCurry singled out House demands for reams of information on theMexico bailout.TIME White House correspondent James Carneysays the charge may take some of the sting out of a letter that House Republicans were about to send complaining about the Administration's unresponsiveness. McCurry may also have been provoked by a House-Senate conference committee's threat to block loans to Mexico...
...other hand, he refuses her 'seduction,' her attention may be unwanted, but she will have little opportunity to prolong the harassment. Since she is in a lesser position of authority, she has little power to further manipulate him; this is in stark contrast to an employer who, in the absence of sexual harassment guidelines, may continue to harass an employee by threat of dismissal or demotion. In the case of female employee's advances being refused by a male employer, he would be more proper to dismiss her on grounds of inappropriate behavior or violation of corporate policy than...
...female employee is dismissed because of seduction and continues to harass her former employer, she may be charged with harassment properly--but this situation lies outside the sphere of Mansfield's very specific concern with sexual favors used expressly to advance one's career...