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Many chief executives of major corporations agreed with that view. "The President is going to have to make more trade-offs," says David Mahoney, chairman of Norton Simon. "Both parties need to ignore extremes and concentrate on getting the economy rolling again." Asserted John Nevin, chairman of Firestone Tire & Rubber: "There will be a more pragmatic attitude toward intolerable budget deficits...
Eleanor Holmes Norton, who will serve a six-year term as an alumni fellow on the corporation which has permanent and temporary members, teaches law at Georgetown University She received from Yale a master's degree in American Studies in 1963 and an LL.B...
...Norton has worked as assistant legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union and spent seven years as head of New York City's Commission on Human Rights In 1977, she assumed leadership of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EFOC) under President Jimmy Carter...
...three years that she headed the EEOC. Norton reduced the commission's huge back log of cases and helped improve its settlement rate from 14 to 52 percent...
...Norton, who has written for publications such as Ms. Dessent and The Nation, has been a vocal supporter of affirmative action programs to end job discrimination against women and minorities...