Word: robinsons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...landmark case was brought by shipyard welder Lois Robinson, who accused her employer of ignoring the display of pornographic images and condoning the routine verbal abuse of the six females among the 846 skilled-crafts employees. Robinson and two other women testified that they endured a barrage of comments from their male peers, perhaps the mildest of which was "I'd like to get in bed with that." The offending photos, many of which came from calendars provided by tool-supply companies, included a nude woman bending over with her buttocks and genitals exposed, a nude female torso with USDA...
...said, females in a "sexually hostile" workplace are a captive audience for pornography and are usually reluctant to challenge superiors and colleagues over the issue. "Nobody's stopping the men at Jacksonville Shipyards from reading pornography," says Alison Wetherfield, an attorney with the women's advocacy group that represented Robinson. "They're just saying, 'You can't do it here, boys...
...have something special here at Harvard, miles ahead of the rest. I know that problems may exist of major proportions among people of color wanting their struggle to live on, and rightly it should, but I'm not looking for the negative. But there was a time. Arthur N. Robinson IV Library Security Cabot Science Library
Just so. Until last week, Freedom was the nation's fourth largest black- owned banking company, with assets of $121 million. Founded in 1964 by a group headed by the late baseball great Jackie Robinson, Freedom was formed with a special mission: to serve the churches, businesses and homeowners in the African-American community who were typically denied credit by mainstream institutions. Freedom helped finance the renovation of the Apollo Theater, for instance. But like many banks in the '80s, Freedom sought to cash in on expanded powers granted under deregulation by moving aggressively into new lending areas, including risky...
...Mary Robinson, the candidate of the minority Labour Party, an organization she quit five years ago, impressed voters with her articulate, polished image. The first woman to capture the presidency, Robinson is as notable for her & political radicalism as for her gender, and her election signaled a shift away from traditional attitudes among the electorate...