Word: tape
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...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...
...service stations and do more business with minority-owned companies. Texaco's record so far does not inspire great faith--and some questions still need to be answered. Why did it take more than two years of legal action by six aggrieved black employees, the leak of an embarrassing tape recording and the threat of a boycott to get Texaco to live up to the fine-sounding promises in its glossy equal-opportunity brochures? Why was it so hard for black Texaco employees to be taken seriously when they complained about being called "porch monkeys" and "orangutans" by co-workers...
...Doves Cry, Emancipation is plagued with a lot of filler. In the end there are just too many middling songs. Still, listeners can indulge in a little emancipation of their own and make one great album out of this three-CD set. Directions: 1)Buy Emancipation and a blank tape; 2)Record these songs off the three CDs: Jam of the Year; Somebody's Somebody; In This Bed I Scream; One Kiss at a Time; Soul Sanctuary; Emale; Let's Have a Baby; Friend, Lover, Mother/Wife; My Computer; and the title track. A little extra work? Sure. But well worth...
Employees at Texaco Inc. had noticed the glass ceiling for some time. But the idea only became accepted when tapes revealed that senior executives used race as a factor in determining promotions. In most cases, the existence of glass ceilings are very difficult to prove, and minority employees who brush up against the glass ceiling are not so lucky to have their fears confirmed by a tape...
...former Los Angeles detective Mark Fuhrman can attest, bigots of all sorts must rue the invention of tape recorders, which often provide undeniable proof of the prejudice that lurks behind the tolerant face they would like the public to see. The most recent example: the transcript of a meeting in August 1994 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...