Word: suit
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...boardrooms, racism in the workplace, like everything else, is primarily an issue of dollars and cents--as in the case of the $176 million that Texaco will pay out to settle a class-action discrimination claim, or the $500 million being demanded from Bell Atlantic in a suit filed by African-American employees last month. Their complaint, which so far incorporates the charges of 126 workers, runs the entire gamut of possible racial bias on the job, from the crudest slurs--an insulting "Nigger Application for Employment" was left on a copier--to more subtle forms of discrimination. Daniel Clark...
...minority consumers and access to the deepest possible labor pool. "If you're sued, you lose," contends Jerry Maatman, a partner at Chicago's Baker & McKenzie, who in 1989 hit upon the idea of offering companies "audits" of their personnel practices--and so their vulnerability to a discrimination suit. "Our job is to find out what's wrong and then be a doctor and heal them," he says. And judging merely by the pending suits in his own city, there is still a good deal of healing...
Most of the time, it must be fun to be MICHELLE PFEIFFER. But sometimes it can be a big drag. Like now. A Michigan plastics-factory manager, Lawrence Booker, claiming to be the father of Pfeiffer's adopted daughter Claudia Rose, has filed suit for $75,000, and he asserts that Pfeiffer and husband DAVID E. KELLEY lifted portions of his script Barrio Kids for the film Dangerous Minds. Bunch of hooey, says Pfeiffer's publicist. The adoption was closed, so Pfeiffer doesn't know who the biological parents are and they don't know who got their child...
Jones: I stand by my story that I was so shaken by these events that I filed suit a full two days before the statute of limitations ran out. Although I never lost my job and I received regular pay raises, I was unable to advance my career as quickly as I had assumed I could by meeting the Governor in his hotel suite, and was thus deprived of my constitutional rights...
Wilde largely precipitated his own tragedy, when he rashly brought a libel suit against the father of his young lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, for publicly calling him a sodomite. Wilde dropped the suit midway through the trial, but the damage was done: charges were soon brought against him for violating public morality. After one hung jury, he was convicted and sent to jail for two years...