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Sharon Taxman, who is white, and Debra Williams, who is black, both worked in the business department of a Piscataway, N.J., high school. Fiscal hardship required the school to trim the business department by one position. Although Taxman and Williams had equal seniority, the school decided to retain Williams, arguing that she lent racial diversity to the faculty...
...their vast financial resources, these virtual all-star teams will always be top contenders for the World Series crown, while teams from cities such as Montreal and Minneanapolis will never be able to afford a contending team. Sure, teams such as the Marlins may occasionally incur great financial hardship to give themselves one desperate shot at a title, but only the wealthy teams can build a dynasty...
...Children are bearing the brunt of the current economic hardship," said Philippe Heffinick, UNICEF's Baghdad representative. Unfortunately, the malnourished children are also becoming a bargaining counter and propoganda tool for Saddam Hussein. Iraqi television is dominated by images of women wailing over the bodies of eight children apparently starved to death at a Baghdad hospital...
Morgan brazenly asserts that my mother, as a member of the Board of Directors of Cardinal Health Company, a pharmeceutical company with more than 140,000 employees, "is engaged in an activity outside the University that causes severe economic hardship to hundreds of people." He bases this degradation on the fact that the local Teamsters union of a Massachusetts distributor of Cardinal products has walked off the job, and the distributor has brought in replacement workers. Morgan and the PSLM pamphlets overlook several crucial facts of the situation...
...professor is engaged in an activity that causes severe economic hardship to hundreds of people, it should be brought to the attention of the Harvard community...