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...power of the law. Under Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guidelines issued in 1980 and unanimously affirmed by the Supreme Court in 1986, sexual harassment includes not just physical but also verbal and "environmental" abuse. Under the law, there are two broadly recognized forms. The first involves a "quid pro quo" in which a worker is compelled to trade sex for professional survival. In 1986 an Ohio woman won a $3.1 million verdict against an employer who invited her to perform oral sex or lose...
Beyond the whispering campaign, Gorman's attorneys hint at coercion. They suggest his programs were dropped from the satellite owned by James Bakker, of PTL teleministry notoriety, as a quid pro quo for Swaggart's business on the same system, and for the Louisiana preacher's silence about PTL hush money to Bakker paramour Jessica Hahn. If that was the deal, it didn't last: within a year Swaggart became one of Bakker's denouncers and helped bring about his resignation and PTL's financial collapse...
...about when a rape has occurred have, not surprisingly, uncovered the deeper, more subtle disagreements and misunderstandings about precisely these points. Various studies and surveys have found, for example, that men and women have different interpretations of behaviors as simple as a smile, and as serious as the expected quid pro quo for paying for your date's dinner...
With so much progress on so many fronts, it was easy to see the offer of aid as a reward for good behavior. Both Baker and Bush were at pains to deny any quid pro quo, especially for Soviet cooperation in the gulf crisis. "None of the measures today are in any sense a payback," Baker insisted, thereby fueling suspicion in the act of disputing it. There was no denying that Soviet cooperation has been essential in keeping the pressure on Iraq -- by voting for sanctions, supporting the United Nations resolution permitting the use of force, and last week delaying...
...Well, there is a record of so-called quid pro quo deals, in which borrowers allegedly received favorable treatment from Silverado on loans in exchange for using extra cash to buy Silverado stock and other business interests...