Word: suited
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...counter Peres' reputation for meekness on security issues, he is shown, as commander in chief, in the company of Israeli military officers. In its ads attacking Netanyahu, whom nearly all Israelis call by the nickname Bibi, Labor seeks to exploit the widespread perception of him as a glib, empty suit. One commercial features ordinary people, presumably Likud voters, commenting on Netanyahu; they say over and over again, "Bibi's good looking," and "Bibi speaks good English...
Lugar looks ready to bolt as he steps into a dingy workingman's cafe in Kragujevac. The man who helped arrange the meeting, a shark-faced lawyer in a purple suit, nods in reassurance, but Lugar stares truculently at two TIME journalists, unsure if we are who we say we are. His jacket stretches tightly across his burly chest, barely hiding a bulletproof vest; he keeps a hand on a briefcase that contains a pistol. He has good reason to take precautions. Since he returned from Bosnia, he has been shot at twice, bashed with an iron bar and slammed...
Perhaps that explains why M.M.M.A. responded so aggressively to the charges. General counsel Schultz, a company vice president, denied the commission's allegations, calling them a rehash of the "old charges" contained in Benassi's civil suit...
This month, fed up with Mitsubishi's stonewalling, the commission brought suit, charging that the company created "a hostile and abusive work environment" and not only failed to take appropriate action in cases where the complaints were made, but actually retaliated against the women who made them. The EEOC's suit essentially broadens the charges filed in the earlier private suit to include all female employees, past and present, who might have suffered harassment since the plant opened. That description, say EEOC investigators, could apply to more than 500 women. And under the revision of the Civil Rights...
...expressed a willingness to start negotiations to settle the matter, while stressing his belief that Mitsubishi had not been "particularly insensitive in responding to claims of sexual-harassment activities when compared to other companies in the business." Neither the EEOC nor lawyers for the women plaintiffs in the civil suit have heard directly from the company...