Word: similarities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decision was unusual. The bank would have already prevailed in most states, where antidiscrimination laws--like the federal one--set a minimum age of 40 for those claiming age bias. The New Jersey ruling wasn't unprecedented, though. In the 1980s, courts in Maine, New York and Oregon allowed similar suits to proceed almost unnoticed. But the New Jersey court has a reputation for issuing cutting-edge rulings in employment law. (The state's liberal decisions on sexual-harassment law foreshadowed a national push to broaden the scope of such law.) Eighteen other states have similar antidiscrimination statutes, with...
...eLance, a Jersey City, N.J., startup founded by two Wall Streeters, will soon launch a different sort of auction, where firms will be able to post projects--white-collar tasks like Web design, consulting and marketing--and solicit bids on them. Another player, Freeagent.com is set to offer a similar service...
...worked. Murders in Richmond dropped sharply, from 140 in 1997 to 94 in 1998 and 32 in the first six months of 1999. Armed robberies showed a similar decline. As of June 18, the Exile task force had won long prison sentences for 279 gun-carrying criminals. Says Fahey: "We've taken them off the streets...
Much of the evidence for SAMe's effectiveness comes from Europe. Researchers in Italy documented its apparent anti-depressant qualities in several small studies in the 1970s. (A couple of more recent U.S. studies found similar results.) Doctors in Germany think it may reverse some of the damage caused by osteoarthritis, the wear-and-tear form of arthritis...
Council can hand down is expulsion from Harvard Ohousing. To remove a student from the summer school, the case is referred to an Administrative Board similar to the one for undergraduates...