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Earlier this week six female employees of the nation's largest private employer, retail chain Wal-Mart, filed a federal lawsuit accusing the store of sex discrimination. Although over seventy percent of Wal-Mart's hourly employee's are female, they account for only a third of all management. The women allege the retail chain engaged in unfair practices in the training, payment and promotion of its female employees. TIME contributor Barbara Ehrenreich worked at a Wal-Mart in Minnesota doing research for her latest book, "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America" which looks at the lives...
...Binging was defined as five drinks in a row for boys and four for girls.) In an age in which campus officials are increasingly seen as proxy parents, this is worrying to them. Legal liability is of particular concern, especially after M.I.T. last year chose to avoid a lawsuit by paying out $6 million to the parents of a freshman who in 1997 drank himself to death at a fraternity initiation...
...wife dearly and it's very hurtful for her," Davis told TIME. "I've understood kids are looking up to me." When the father of six-year-old twins heard the allegations, he called his mother, mother-in-law and his lawyer, then, on Wednesday, filed a $50 million lawsuit against Cicignano. Still, he worries that his name will be tarnished...
...investing debacles. HMC lost about half of a $45 million investment—then about one percent of the endowment—in risky “commercial papers” of Lomas Financial Co., sold by Merrill Lynch, a loss that was aired publicly when HMC filed a lawsuit to recover the losses...
...suite. It's a chip implanted behind my right ear. I can think through proposals and e-mails without ever having to type. (I'm not even sure I remember how to type. Schools stopped teaching it years ago after the Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Association filed a class-action lawsuit...