Word: thefts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last year a Detroit jury found Voikos' story so convincing that it ordered the discount chain to pay her $100,000. The hefty compensation was unprecedented, but there is growing evidence that Voikos' ordeal was not. Lie detector tests, either to screen job applicants or to uncover theft by employees, have become big business: hundreds of thousands are given each year, and the number is rising steadily. But despite technical improvements in the equipment, the accuracy of the results is often open to question, and there are persistent reports of browbeating by examiners. One supermarket clerk...
...questions asked in some cases are a brief recap of those on a job application form. In others, they probe the subject's past, with the emphasis on theft. But sometimes they pry into more personal affairs. Testers reportedly used to ask job applicants at the Coors brewery about their sexual proclivities and how often they changed their underwear. According to Mike Tiner of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, queries about political, sexual and union matters are "definitely on the increase...
...political consciousness to speak of, and both are only mildly--and spottily--entertaining. But each takes a stab at the American capitalist system and the Protestant ethic of hard work and honesty. And in each film, the American way of life takes a beating, handily defeated by chicanery, theft and vice...
...legalistic reasoning that ignores the real world in which poor women live. Marshall listed some of the alternatives open to an indigent woman who must pay for an abortion herself: "not paying rent or utility bills, pawning household goods, diverting food and clothing money" and even outright theft...
...amateur scientist himself, wrote the nation's first patent law in 1793, he was deter mined to ensure that "ingenuity should receive a liberal encouragement." Under his law, "any new and useful art, machine, manufacture or composition of matter" was patentable and thus legally shielded from theft. Last week, in a 5-to-4 decision, the Supreme Court applied the Jeffersonian measure to one of the latest examples of human ingenuity. It ruled that new forms of life created in the laboratory could be patented...