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Dual System. Last week's decision ended a long and hard-fought case against the Teamsters and T.I.M.E.-DC, Inc., a trucking company based in Lubbock, Texas, which the Government accused of discriminating against blacks and Hispanics in deciding who would get over-the-road driving jobs. As recently as 1971, only 13 of the company's 1,828 over-the-road drivers were members of minorities. Like almost all trucking companies, T.I.M.E.-DC had two seniority systems, one for over-the-road drivers, the other for workers in more menial jobs. If a warehouse cargo loader became...
Princeton has gone 3-4 so far this year against a brutal schedule that included the three Maryland meanies: Maryland, Hopkins and Navy. The Tigers also met undefeated, fourth-ranked Penn, bowing to the Quakers in a hard-fought triple-overtime marathon...
...next few contests, Navy drew even. At number two, Harvard's Todd Lundy went down in a hard-fought three sets. After Scott Walker, who played strongly all week, had disposed of his sailor foe in another battle that went the distance, a strong Navy racquetman dispatched Kevin Shaw in two sets...
...game was a hard-fought contest, especially in the late stages. Lacy's blast in the seventh gave the Dodgers a 4-3 edge. The Red Sox regained the lead in the opening of the ninth with a pair of doubles by Doug Griffen and Andy Merchant and a Ramon Aviles single...
...young and talented Harvard hockey team is taking quite a few lumps these days. After picking up losses to Providence and Boston University within the past two weeks, the Crimson traveled to Brown on Saturday night and picked up Lump Number Three in a hard-fought 5-3 loss to the Bruins...