Word: kiser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have a prediction: Clinton sweats bullets while this thing drags through Congress. He manages to survive and stay in office. Clinton breathes a huge sigh of relief, thanks God and then goes out and does it all over again. ROB KISER Pound...
...political and economic turmoil hurts Russia's ability to attract desperately needed investments from Western firms. But with a highly educated population of 148 million people, or roughly half the former Soviet Union, Russia is simply too large to ignore. "It's like the Wild West," says John Kiser, a Washington technology-trade expert. "There's no law and no contracts. The only thing you have to build on is your confidence in the people you're dealing with," he says...
...forbids gender discrimination in schools receiving federal or state funds. In that case, the Justices said, a tax-supported female nursing school in Mississippi could not refuse to enroll men, since a single-sex policy was not necessary to achieve an important educational goal. Citing the Mississippi case, Judge Kiser concluded that V.M.I.'s goals would be thwarted if women were admitted. His ruling, complained Ellen Vargyas, senior counsel for the National Women's Law Center, turns the 1982 precedent "upside down...
...page opinion, Judge Kiser took note of the school's traditions. V.M.I.'s freshman-class members -- the "rats" as they are called -- are hazed unmercifully, forced to live under Spartan conditions and confronted with demeaning physical demands. Kiser observed that the "rat line" creates a "bonding to their fellow sufferers and former tormentors." Any changes made in the rat line to accommodate women, he said, would thwart the college's mission...
...talking about whether there is a role for single-sex education," says Vargyas. "The real question is, Can the brother rats have male bonding with tax money from the state of Virginia?" In the wake of Operation Desert Storm, in which women died alongside men for their country, Judge Kiser's ruling seems rather jarring -- especially since female taxpayers help pay for V.M.I.'s different drummer...