Word: suited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week, Texaco board chair Peter I. Bijur settled a class-action lawsuit that had been filed several years ago by several black employees who claimed they were denied promotion opportunities because of their race. The corporation, which had previously been fighting the suit tooth and nail, offered the $176.1 million settlement only after a former Texaco executive disclosed a tape-recording he had made of a 1994 board meeting. On the recording, top Texaco brass discuss destroying evidence of hiring discrimination while using racially insulting language...
...young Hispanic man asked for his autograph. But once inside, away from the cameras, Simpson lowered his head and heaved a deep sigh. For this wasn't the Santa Monica courthouse where he's been spending most of the past two months defending himself in the wrongful-death civil suit brought by the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. This was the start of yet another trial, in an Orange County courthouse 40 miles away, where he is fighting for custody of his two children against the parents of his slain ex-wife...
...customers made me a lifelong supporter. So it's a no-brainer for me to help Jesse Jackson and other black leaders keep the pressure on Texaco by boycotting the chain while they negotiate concessions that go even further than last Friday's extraordinary settlement of a bitter discrimination suit...
...look like you're 25," Finegold (D-Andover) said, noting that his campaign managers asked him to wear a suit, tie, trenchcoat and glasses in order to appear more mature...
...between senior officials of Texaco Inc. that wound up last week on the front page of the New York Times. The palaver was surreptitiously taped by one of the participants, former Texaco personnel director Richard A. Lundwall, who turned the recording over to the plaintiffs in a racial-discrimination suit after he was later fired...