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...example of the left-handed postal clerk wasn't silly. Regrettably, the man-made environment is usually designed for the "average" citizen, which leaves out the majority: short, tall, pregnant, fat, disabled or lefthanded. Flexible solutions are possible if the buyers of design service see the importance of designing for everyone. Keep fighting, lefties...
...that a young woman in New York City charged sexist discrimination when the Yankees turned her down for a job-bat girl-that would have required her presence in the men's locker room. And where, if anywhere, are the merits of the argument advanced by the lefthanded postal clerk in Kentucky who charged that the U.S. Postal Service discriminated against southpaws by setting up its filing cases for the convenience of righthanded clerks...
This perception was strengthened by the refusal of postal workers to process mail from Grunwick to its film-service customers. After ignoring pleas from postal union officials to stop their illegal blockade, 100 workers were suspended without pay. They showed up at the local sorting office anyway, delivering mail to private homes in the area before postal officials closed the office...
They include teachers and policemen, postal workers and bus drivers, health-lab technicians and jail keepers, IRS and Secret Service clerks. All are on a public payroll-and all have connived to be simultaneously on the public dole. Last week, in the latest crackdown against a special breed of welfare cheater, 164 civil servants in Chicago and New York City were indicted for double-dealing an extra slice of the taxpayers' pie. Said U.S. Attorney Sam Skinner in Chicago: "The problem is immense. There is an astonishing lack of respect for law from public employees. We rest our whole...
Violent Swings. The implications of the indictments go beyond soybean trading. They represent the first results of a 15-month investigation into U.S. commodity trading by the Department of Justice, the Internal Revenue Service, U.S. postal inspectors and the federal Commodities Futures Trading Commission. Skinner warned that more indictments involving other commodity markets can be expected...