Word: shipyard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...position to prevent any of the Pentagon's ire from hitting close to home. "He's always been antimilitary, but right now we're looking at him as one of our last hopes to save the installation," says Mark Hutchings, a fire inspector at the Mare Island Naval Complex shipyard in Vallejo...
...internal debate within the A.C.L.U. on the Florida case was, in the words of an insider, "fairly acrimonious." Many women members believe that by filing an amicus curiae brief in support of the shipyard, the organization displayed insensitivity to the intimidating effect that pornography has on women in predominantly male environments. "The workplace is different from the street," contends Mary Ellen Gale, a Whittier College law professor and member of the A.C.L.U.'s national board. "If someone shouts an obscenity on the street, you're not captive and you're not being denied equal opportunity. But it's different when...
...suggestive materials to work, would have applied as readily to a newspaper brassiere ad as to the crude posters that offended Robinson. Beyond that, she says, Melton's ruling that workers cannot even possess the pornographic calendars clearly violates their First Amendment rights. (One quirk of the case: by shipyard practice, employees could not bring newspapers or magazines to work -- but the pornography...
...government sources say Polish President LECH WALESA may have been forced to dismiss a trusted aide because of accusations that he was a KGB spy. Jacek Merkel, who quietly resigned in March as Minister of State in charge of defense and security, had worked closely with Walesa as a shipyard engineer and Solidarity leader. Merkel privately maintains that political enemies fabricated evidence against him, and is fighting to clear his name. The Interior Ministry has refused to release its police collaborator lists, compiled in the communist era, because the files may contain disinformation about people who had no relationship with...
...Christie Brinkley wears plain white men's T shirts. Outside B.J.'s Wholesale Club in Medford, Mass., a white stretch limo waits at the curb while its passengers roam the cavernous discount warehouse. At Tom's Barber Shop in Jacksonville, lawyers and executives sit down next to truckers and shipyard workers for a $6 trim. At Deja Vu, a Palm Beach boutique that sells used designer clothes, women who once sent their maids and drivers to the back door with bundles of high-fashion castoffs to sell now bring them by in person and stick around to shop...