Word: redresses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...spending an additional $100 million over the next 18 months to workers who lose their jobs as a result of NAFTA -- even though nearly everyone at the White House, including Clinton, opposes the idea as ineffective and thus a waste of money. And the White House is willing to redress problems that have nothing to do / with Mexican imports: it is trying to earn a few votes in Pennsylvania and Ohio by promising to "adjust" steel imports with Japan...
...Cornell suit is the fourth pending action against an Ivy League university. Athletes at Brown, Dartmouth and Pennsylvania have also gone to court to seek redress of their Title IX-related grievances. At Stanford, pressure from athletes forced the athletic department to undertake a major new initiative that will allocate $1 million more a year to women's athletics...
This university overflows with resources and administrators; one would think that students and tutors with serious grievances would find numerous routes for redress. But the normal channels seemed closed for the Dunster House tutors. They said they feared retribution if they took their concerns to Masters Karel and Hetty Liem. And when they appealed to Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57--who is supposed to have administrative authority over the house system--they said they were told he could do nothing unless somebody filed a formal complaint...
When young Davidians strayed from his commands, their punishment was severe (though one survivor insisted such redress was basic "Christian discipline"). Disobedience frequently brought out the "helper," a paddle often wielded by Koresh's "mighty men" in the "whipping room" just off the first floor. The instrument left circle-shaped lesions, an inch across, on the children's buttocks. Koresh's son Cyrus, when he was three years old, once refused a command and, according to a former cult member, was starved for two days and forced to sleep on a garage floor where Koresh told him large rats prowled...
...Harvard want to protect the gains of affirmative action from the dismantling impulses of their conservative opponents. But their good intentions work against themselves. If we can agree that affirmative action policies are a necessary remedy to the historical injustices suffered by Blacks in this country, we cheapen that redress when we try to disguise the fact that affirmative action is at work. Affirmative action does not erase past injustices once it admits disadvantaged Black students into Harvard; rather, it allows those inequities to enter the campus. The result is that some Blacks and Latinos admitted into Harvard are generally...