Word: raced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contrary to previous doctrine, it is employees who must prove that imbalances in the racial makeup of their employer's work force result from practices that have no valid business justification. That ruling provoked a biting dissent from Justice Harry Blackmun: "One wonders whether the majority still believes that race discrimination . . . is a problem in our society, or even remembers that it ever...
...statute to make her case of racial harassment against her former employer. Among other things, she claimed that she had been asked to do menial tasks because she was black. Speaking for the majority, Kennedy said the statute prohibited "the refusal to enter into a contract" based on race, but not discrimination involving "postformation conduct" under a contract. Sniped dissenting Justice William Brennan: "What the court declines to snatch away with one hand, it takes with the other...
Most observers believe the court's turn to the right has been accelerated by the arrival of Justice Kennedy, the latest Reagan addition to the court, who is serving his first full term. Kennedy replaced Lewis Powell, a moderate conservative on race questions, after the collapse of the nominations of Robert Bork and Douglas Ginsburg. "The civil rights community mounted this great offensive against Robert Bork," says Walter Burns of the conservative American Enterprise Institute. "Now they're getting what they feared, without him on the court...
...race is not always to the swift. The battle is not always to the strong. But that...
Readers of book reviews (or at least the best-seller lists) know by now that the most popular novel of the moment is John le Carre's new -- and some say best -- spy thriller The Russia House, whose typically complex plot deals with the U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms race. A subject like that, of course, requires accuracy and special attention to detail. How does Le Carre get his information about so arcane a field? Readers of the author's acknowledgments in The Russia House know the answer: Le Carre relied on a first-class expert, Strobe Talbott, TIME's Washington...