Word: harassments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those first two meetings also present a problembecause a number of issues are presented in a waythat does not encourage dialogue. For example,students are usually told that they will bepunished if they harass someone because of his orher sexual orientation. But students may notrealize that they can talk to their proctor aboutquestions of sexual identity...
When civil rights activists commemorated Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday last year with a march in predominantly white Forsyth County, Ga., the Ku Klux Klan turned up to provide harassment and abuse. Fifty of the demonstrators, represented by attorney Morris Dees of the nonprofit Southern Poverty Law Center, sued the Klan on grounds of conspiracy to violate the marchers' right to free expression. In Atlanta last week, U.S. district judge Charles Moye unsealed the verdict: Klan and Klansmen owe the marchers $950,400 in damages. It was the second wallop of a verdict against the K.K.K. lately...
John Principato, a UHS laboratory assistant, said last week he is contacting an attorney because the administration has not acknowledged complaints he lodged in April. Principato, worked in the bacteriology department for five years, said his supervisor continues to harass...
...English privately since she was three, and tosses off expressions like "Come on, Mom" with the exasperated sighs of an American youngster. Yet she has never let her teachers at school know that she can speak English and studies Latin: they might become suspicious and incite their students to harass...
...employ home-district personnel or friends of supporters. Stanley Brand, a former general counsel to the House, says Congress historically has not placed itself under the yoke of various laws to protect itself from inter-Government conflicts. Imagine, he says, the Justice Department using charges of job discrimination to harass unfriendly Congressmen. Besides, "the reality of going before the voters and seeking election should force Congressmen to behave," he says...