Word: standardness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last Thursday, John Tingle, an employee at Louisville's Standard- Gravure Co., was startled to see a former co-worker. Joseph Wesbecker, 47, was carrying a duffel bag, an AK-47 rifle and a 9-mm handgun. "I told them I'd be back," Wesbecker growled at Tingle. "Back off and get out of the way." Tingle and several other workers quickly locked themselves in a bathroom, and Wesbecker took an elevator to the third-floor offices, looking for bosses or supervisors. Finding none, he worked his way downstairs, gunning down victims...
...teaching fellow, who asked to remain anonymous, said he has heard several complaints about limited course selection. He said the problem stems in part from Harvard's policy of allowing professors to design courses that they teach, rather than requiring a standard list of courses to be taught...
...Frank affair lies in the nature of his mistakes. House Minority Leader Robert Michel (R-III.) argued that because a heterosexual would be kicked out for hiring a prostitute, then Frank should be as well. Michel called Frank a "stain" on the House and said that applying a different standard to Frank would be giving preferential treatment to gays...
Michel's words could only be taken seriously if he applied his tough standard to Republicans as well. But Michel has yet to call Donald "Buzz" Lukens a "stain" on the House, even after Lukens was convicted of purchasing sex from a seventeen-year-old girl...
...double standard to criticize Lukens for hiring a 17-year-old girl and to sympathize with Frank's call to the prostitute. It is not giving preferential treatment to gays to acknowledge that the social stigma on them can be over-powering, and lead to desperate measures...