Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...draws heavily on reporting from TIME correspondents across the U.S. Once all but taboo, the subject of homosexuality is now being treated with increasing-and increasingly open-concern in psychological, clerical and political forums as people like our cover subject, Air Force Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, struggle for what they regard as full civil rights. It is a struggle that often alarms the "straight" world...
...A.C.L.U. reports job discrimination against gays is eroding. Some major corporations?including AT&T, the Bank of America, IBM and NBC?have declared themselves equal-opportunity employers with regard to homosexuals. Honeywell, which publicly refused to hire gays in 1970, lifted the ban seven months before Minneapolis, where its home office is located, passed an antidiscrimination ordinance in 1974. Most
...list of recommendations about the Harvard-Radcliffe relationship, the most important of which was that the ratio be dropped in favor of an admissions policy of "equal access." Equal access sounds great on paper: every applicant will be judged solely on the basis of his or her qualifications, without regard to sex. No longer will there be any of those artificial quotas. The vast majority of students supported the policy. Matina Horner, in a not-too-surprising role as a defender of the Harvard administration, declared that equal access was really the best thing for women, since women admitted under...
...include most weekends and holidays. The overall impression conveyed that Judge Alexander A. Lawrence is habitually dilatory and unsympathetic in his handling of civil rights cases is totally inaccurate. Judge Lawrence has administered the law in school integration, busing, the Civil Rights Act and civil liberties cases with scrupulous regard for the rights of the complainants, and his opinions are usually prepared with much greater dispatch than the briefs of the lawyers who argue the cases before...
...smooth for the union. Says Investigative Editor Jim Drinkhall, who has written many reports of Teamster shady dealings for Overdrive, an independent monthly trade publication: "Essentially, their idea is 'Who cares what they do as long as I get mine?' " Many employers do not care either; they regard the Teamsters as a good union to deal with because it keeps the members in line and has held wildcat strikes to a minimum...