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...September asked a federal court how it could legally go about cutting 400 employees from its payroll. The utility had a seniority layoff agreement with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and an affirmative-action agreement with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The court ruled that the EEOC should prevail and that Jersey Central should seek to keep its work force as integrated as it was before the layoffs, perhaps by establishing three separate seniority lists-for minority workers, for women and for all others. The union lost no time filing an appeal. Indeed organized labor has taken the lead...
...with more sympathy the OPEC countries' deeply felt desire for a larger share of the world's wealth. In this great global clash of interests, it is time for both sides to soften their anger and seek new ways to get along with each other. If sanity is to prevail, the guiding policy must be not confrontation but cooperation and conservation...
Coming at the same time the Harvard Corporation picks next spring's recipients of honorary degrees, Ali's victory might inspire even this group that prides itself on its calm. If cooler heads prevail there, Ali might make an outstanding Norton Professor of Poetry...
That racist ideas do prevail among the orthodox--though they differ in important ways from those of Griffith's time--lies at the heart of any accurate criticism of Saturday night's action. The action was wrong not because it raised the issue of racism too forcefully, but because it didn't raise it forcefully enough--the demonstrators failed to present a meaningful discussion of racism at Harvard after they stopped the movie...
...majority ... the sense of the smaller number will overrule that of the greater." Though Thomas Jefferson could proclaim in his first Inaugural Address that "the minority possess their equal rights," he called it a "sacred principle" that "the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail." That being so, what is so equal about minority rights...