Word: houstonize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...study in this month's Journal of Clinical Investigation, Kasper gave 100 Houston women who were not pregnant either the strengthened vaccine or the old, weaker...
...lawsuit in which a California jury awarded $17.6 million to a female Texaco employee who sued after the company denied her promotion and gave her job to a man, a reprimand last year by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs for unfair employment practices at its Houston facility and an investigation by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in June that found reasonable cause to believe that Texaco discriminates against some blacks in the organization. In other words, the company's shareholders have had ample time to realize that there was something shady about its practices and yet have done...
...other cases are pending there. An Air Force general revealed that over the past three years, eight male instructors have been disciplined for harassment at the Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. And the San Antonio Express-News reported that at a medic school at Fort Sam Houston, five sergeants were disciplined for fraternization and wild behavior on a February bus trip to Mexico...
Last year Texaco was reprimanded by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs for unfair employment practices at its facilities in Houston. And just this past June, the EEOC, which conducted its own investigation of the complaints covered by last week's settlement, found there was reasonable cause to believe that Texaco discriminates against blacks in certain salary categories "because of their race...
This is the season of superdivas: Whitney Houston, Barbra Streisand and Madonna. Each is starring in a major holiday film (Houston in The Preacher's Wife, Streisand in The Mirror Has Two Faces and Madonna in Evita), and each is featured on the sound track of her film. Houston's Preacher (in stores Nov. 12) represents a change of pace for the mainstream megastar. Half the CD is pop, and half is gospel, a genre that should provide Houston with a vocal challenge worthy of her abilities. Streisand's Mirror (Nov. 12) also offers a mix; it's mostly music...