Word: portions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...courts. Last week the Supreme Court ruled that no state can deny unemployment benefits to women during the last three months of pregnancy and the six weeks following birth on the "conclusive presumption" that they are all physically unable to work at that time. The decision overturns a portion of a Utah law upheld last February by the state supreme court. Although Mary Ann Turner, 23, held Kelly Girl temporary jobs during the final months before her son Brian was born, the Utah court ignored such earthly evidence and instead invoked "the Great Creator." Redress, the court declared, could come...
...years since publication of the report, a generation of young people has grown up with no awareness of what the commission really said. Millions of older Americans, too, paid little attention to its details. Thus whatever a large portion of the public has learned about the report has been filtered, often in a highly prejudicial way, through the critics-some of whom show no signs of having read it. The more industrious critics have minutely analyzed the full 26 volumes and exploited every real or imagined conflict among witnesses, every investigative error or omission by Dallas police...
What has happened to a once-great institution presumably dedicated to the physical, intellectual and moral development of young men and women that it can so shabbily treat a man who has given it a major portion of his life? Is this the retribution our sons and daughters must now envision for long years of service: forced retirement, annuity reduced by 50%, discrimination because of age and wage...
...seems to be true that a certain amount of sexual activity is sacrificed in propitiation of the academic gods. Yale has a normal portion of conversation about the possibilities of romantic love, but it also has a certain amount of cynicism about a social life centered in an underground library. Most people take for granted a connection between celibacy and scholarship--a routine refrain as students leave the dining room is, "Well, I'm off to sublimate...
With so many farmworkers voting against the UFW, it is clear that elections have been needed for the past decade. The fundamentally coercive boycotts have been an unjust and unfair organizing tactic with such a large portion of farmworkers opposed to the UFW, especially in the blacklisted crops. In fact, the overwhelming rejection of Chavez among these workers lays bare the insidious purpose of the boycotts for all to see. It is time for those who supported the boycotts to realize that the issue is more complex than they originally thought...