Word: shows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Polumbo until the court can decide whether the jail-'em-yourself law is constitutional. "If a woman can be attacked, take her assailant to trial and come away emptyhanded, women will be discouraged from going to court," says Summers, now working as a lawyer in Hartford. "I wanted to show assault victims that there is a legal remedy." The message may be getting through. A Connecticut women's group has begun passing out flyers reading, "For one dollar an hour you can keep a rapist in jail...
...result of Iowa Senator Dick Clark's upset defeat in last month's elections, McGovern is in line to chair the Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs, assuming incoming Foreign Relations Chairman Frank Church continues the custom of having such geographical subcommittees. McGovern's trip was partly intended to show that he not only wanted the job, but also was thoroughly prepped...
...lower courts reasoned that employers could use affirmative action only to remedy past wrongs. But making an employer show past discrimination puts the firm between a rock and a hard place. . If an employer gives preference to non-white workers without admitting past errors, it opens itself up to suits from passed over white workers like Weber. But if the employer admits past discrimination, it invites suits for substantial back pay from nonwhites. Allowing the decision to stand, argued the Justice Department in its petition, "can be expected to chill voluntary affirmative-action programs throughout the country." The Equal Employment...
...important distinctions in reporting growth, inflation or jobless trends is whether they are calculated "year over year" or "fourth quarter to fourth quarter." The difference can be substantial. Say that the economy rises fast during one year but is absolutely flat the next year. Even so, the averages would show a fairly strong year-over-year rise...
...fact, the average for the first year was about 105, and the average for the second year was 110. Thus, when measured on a year-over-year or average basis, the second year would show a gain of about five points over the first. Of course it would be more accurate to use the fourth-quarter-over-fourth-quarter measure, which would show no rise. If the forecasts of TIME'S Board of Economists are correct, next year's G.N.P. will rise about 2% year-over-year but will not increase at all in a fourth-quarter...