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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...
...trial, the shipyard presented an expert witness who asserted that such depictions would not offend the "average woman." Judge Melton was not persuaded. Among other things, he 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...
...hope of halting the country's growing political polarization. In the end, Mazowiecki was swayed by the argument that Walesa, who forced Jaruzelski to resign, should not be allowed simply to steamroller his way into power. No matter what the outcome, the fight between Walesa, the former shipyard electrician, and Mazowiecki, the former newspaper editor, ends the alliance between workers and intellectuals that helped topple communism in Poland...
Sometime within the next year, an eerily quiet, 280-ton lime-green ship will leave the docks at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' shipyard in Kobe, Japan, for the first time. Though it will never speed faster than a leisurely 8 knots or carry more than 10 passengers, the Yamato No. 1's maiden voyage will be as unique as the first time Robert Fulton steamed up the Hudson River. Christened last week with a bottle of sake, the Yamato is the world's first vessel to propel itself through the water using the power of magnetism...
...recent strikes by shipyard and railroad workers for higher pay and improved conditions suggest that patience may be wearing out. "People have been amazingly tolerant so far," says Professor Adam Bromke of the Polish Academy of Sciences. "But they are feeling the pinch, and there are many dangers ahead...