Word: kaiser
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Last week the court decided to face that issue. It agreed to review the case of Brian Weber, 32, a white employee at the Gramercy, La., plant of Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. who had been rejected by a craft training program that reserved half its places for minorities. Weber sued Kaiser and his union, the United Steelworkers, and won: two federal courts ruled that under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act Kaiser cannot use racial quotas without proof that it discriminated in the past...
...biggest fan is Gerald C. Meyers, 50, chairman of American Motors Corp., which bought manufacturing rights to the Jeep from Kaiser Industries in 1970. Though the company lost an estimated $65 million on its conventional cars for the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, AMC still posted a $36.7 million profit on sales of $2.6 billion. Most of that black ink comes from Jeeps...
Brain F. Weber, a white employee at Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Co.'s Grammercy, La, plant, charged the company's affirmative action program made him a victim of "reverse discrimination...
...deviling construction in the East, partly because West Coast builders have been snapping up supplies. As a result, many projects are stalled, and cement prices are climbing. Some big West Coast suppliers are going as far as Japan and Korea for raw materials. California's big Kaiser Cement and Gypsum Co. plans to import 10% of the materials it needs from Japan this year...
...lame start with the Paris-New York show in 1977, a patchy curatorial bungle. It finds its feet with this exhibition. The theme is large: nothing less than the whole panorama of the German avant-garde in its most spiritual, subversive or idealist aspects, from the time of Kaiser Wilhelm II to that of Adolf Hitler. It embraces film, photog- raphy, architecture, industrial design and printing, as well as sculpture and painting, and it covers an extraordinary ferment of ideas and images. In short, it is the first major exhibition-as the Pompidou Center proudly and rightly claims-to trace...