Word: suits
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...Presidential Adviser Jordan and that his father, a wealthy Atlanta real estate developer, was a longtime supporter of Carter's. Corporate leaders have had a hard time taking him seriously since his first meeting with them, when Selig turned up at an exclusive Washington club wearing a leisure suit...
Frustrated by what it regards as conflicting goals set by various Government agencies for hiring and promoting minorities and women, Sears, Roebuck and Co. brought a class-action suit against ten federal agencies last January. Sears wanted a clarification of affirmative-action policy and an admission from the Government that the company's hiring practices, long the subject of an investigation by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, were within...
...tart observation that "realization of the national policy of genuine equal opportunity for all citizens is a formidable task, but it isn't beyond the notable skill and competence of Sears." A number of businessmen, who also find the regulations murky, felt that the real purpose of the suit had been served, as one competing big retailer put it, by "spreading the word of protest against Government employment interference." But the key fact was that the courts once again affirmed that affirmative action is here to stay...
Actually, individuals have already brought suit under Title VI and Title IX, and many civil rights lawyers and courts have assumed all along that they could. The high court's decision simply removes any doubt and makes people aware of their rights. Says Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe: "Once the Supreme Court gives the green light, you can expect more suits...
...guard (Bob Burrus) has quit his job and accompanied Arlene to her Louisville flat, with the lecherous expectation of shacking up with her. He is an odd mixture of paternal solicitude and cruel menace. Her ex-lover and pimp (Leo Burmester) shows up. A smarmy swaggerer in an orange suit, he proposes to take her off to the rich mean streets of New York...