Word: scoped
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Companies face other suits for negligence in hiring, retaining and promoting violent workers. "The defense that employers used to have, that a violent employee acted out of the scope of his responsibilities, has been eroded," observes Karen Kienbaum of Varnum, Riddering, Schmidt and Howlett, a Michigan law firm. When an off-duty store manager chased a child who had urinated on the side of the building and attacked his four-year-old companion, the parents sued the company and won. "The jury said, 'Forget it. The man had a history of violence, and you made him store manager. Then...
Administration sources say President Clinton will determine the scope of the sanctions after reviewing recommendations from an interagency committee. The most likely action is a ban on imports of Taiwan's wildlife products, including snakeskin shoes and lizard handbags. The value of such imports runs about $25 million a year -- a tiny part of America's $25 billion annual trade with Taiwan. But if the sanctions do not spur the country to curb its illicit dealing in endangered species, the trade restrictions could be broadened. And environmentalists will consider any penalties a major victory. Last summer the Administration declared that...
...staff also cites the scope of Harvard's "40 departments and several graduate schools" as a reason that any hiring of minority faculty will be "slow and scattered." What kind of logic is that? Does that mean that the University should never hire any minority faculty members because they will immediately be swallowed up in the frightening miasma that is Harvard? There is such a thing as proceeding one step at a time. The staff, in both its logic and its recommendations, does not seem to understand that...
...holds that all sides are more or less equal. But as evinced by the fact that the HMS will not take just any conflict, this will to neutrality is not extended universally. We should reject this narrow definition of interest. It's time for the HMS to broaden its scope...
After almost five weeks of negotiations the Rabin government agreed to allow 160 international observers into the West Bank and Gaza Strip and to "explore a possible expansion of scope" of the self-rule negotiations beyond areas already agreed upon. These concessions prompted the Palestinians to resume talks. Rabin's reluctant acquiescence to the international observers, in the face of heated opposition in Israel, allowed the first non-Israeli deployment in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The deployment crossed a symbolic barrier, as Israel has never before allowed outside forces to tamper with its internal security...