Word: panels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said Kennedy, writing for a unanimous three-judge panel of the appeals court. There was no proof that the gap in pay scales reflected discrimination rather than the play of market forces. Federal civil rights legislation is not "intended to abrogate fundamental economic principles such as the law of supply and demand" and thus "does not obligate ((the state)) to eliminate an economic inequality which it did not create...
With the report due to be released tomorrow, a Republican member of the House panel, Rep. William Broomfield of Michigan, said it was possible that some former Reagan administration officials violated the law in secretly selling arms to Iran and shifting the proceeds to Nicaragua's Contra rebels...
Neither Broomfield nor any of his GOP colleagues on the House panel signed the report...
...that two special commissions would be set up, one to examine facts and documents dealing with the Stalin era, the other to re-evaluate the history of the Communist Party. It was essential, said Gorbachev, to face up to the "painful matters in our history." Two days later a panel of Soviet historians met with journalists to discuss his call for a franker look at the past. While it was clear that the party would continue to set the ground rules for historical research, the scholars agreed that the veil was being lifted on many subjects. One member...
...commission was impaneled last May after the Supreme Court freed a Muslim army officer who had been imprisoned for seven years on the basis of perjured testimony by Shin Bet agents. The three-man panel condemned Shin Bet's habit of lying in court but agreed that "moderate" physical and psychological coercion is necessary to extract information. "The view prevails that there is an unavoidable need to use physical pressure in interrogations," the commission concluded...