Word: specially
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fair to discriminate against whites in order to help the longtime victims of discrimination, notably blacks and other disadvantaged minorities? Last week, ruling in the crucial case of United Steelworkers of America vs. Weber, the U.S. Supreme Court gave an answer. Employers can indeed choose to give special job preference to blacks without fear of being harassed by reverse-discrimination suits brought by other employees. The ruling was a strong endorsement of affirmative-action programs, one that will both protect them from legal assault and spur their expansion...
...training program for higher paying skilled jobs, such as electrician and repairman, in which half the places were reserved for minorities. Though Weber won in two lower courts, he lost in the high court. By a 5-to-2 vote, the justices ruled that employers can indeed give blacks special preference for jobs that were traditionally all white. Whether or not it has had discriminatory job practices in the past, a company can use affirmative-action programs to remedy "manifest racial imbalance" in employment without fear of being challenged for its efforts in the courts...
...core of Berkey's complex case was a charge that Kodak abused its dominant position when it launched its 110 Instamatic camera in 1972. The camera used a special-size film that came in an easy-to-install cartridge. Other camera makers were riled because they were caught by surprise and lost sales during the time it took to develop models that could use that cartridge. Berkey argued that Kodak had exploited its dominance in film manufacturing to give its Instamatic an unfair advantage over competitors and that it should have told its competitors in advance about...
...filter these cells out of the blood, or any of the foreign material that may be circulating in it, doctors have been turning to a special blood-separation technique. Used by blood banks for at least a decade and more recently as an experimental therapy for other immune-system disorders like lupus erythematosis, myasthenia gravis and polymyositis, it is somewhat similar to hemodialysis for kidney patients. For three or so hours, the blood is slowly tapped from the body, shunted into a centrifuge, spun and separated into its constituents by weight: heavy red cells sink to the bottom, white cells...
Those at the rally realized that much of the action would be going on down the road at the plant, but listened attentively as speakers condemned nukes and urged their extinction. Then, at about 2:30 p.m., came an electrifying message: "We have a special announcement to make: 560 people have just gone over the fence at Shoreham." The crowd roared out its approval, at the action and at the number...