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...union's lawyer, Michael Gottesman, contended that Congress wanted to outlaw only "invidious" discrimination. Said Chief Justice Warren Burger: "What you are saying is that you can discriminate for good motives, but not for bad motives." Gottesman responded that Congress had not intended to prohibit voluntary affirmative action, like the training program set up by the Steelworkers and Kaiser. If Weber wins, warned the company's lawyer, Thompson Powers, it "will literally end affirmative action...
...bill would not do away with condo conversion completely," Graham told the committee, adding "it would simply prohibit evictions for that purpose...
...have reluctantly concluded that the only way to deal with this is for the importing nations to unite in terms of not permitting crude that is traded at premiums to enter their countries. In short, we should prohibit the import of any oil or oil products that sell above the official posted prices. Perhaps this prohibition should be coupled with an international allocation scheme. This is a proposal that will appeal to nobody because it means more Government in business. But what is at stake is the economic welfare of all our countries. When that is at stake, I believe...
Massachusetts now joins California as the only states to prohibit peremptory challenges solely on the basis of race. The United States Supreme Court in the 1965 case of Swain v. Alabama, upheld lawyers' consideration of race in their use of peremptory challenges...
Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, said University rules prohibit a student from acting "as an agent or representative of a private enterprise on campus." He declined to comment, however, on this specific case...