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...ambiguous wording is fair game, but why read it to frustrate Title VII's purpose: to ease pay discrimination in a nation where women make only 77¢ on average for every $1 that men earn? And while employers might like this decision, they could end up choking on the torrent of lawsuits that might now come their way. "The real message is that if you have any inkling that you are being paid differently, you need to file now, before the 180 days are up," says Michael Foreman of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights...
Amidst the screeching and bellowing of the past two weeks, Nunn has sought and held the reassuring middle octaves. In a torrent of pent-up partisan glee released by a major Reagan failure, he has refused to prophesy the end of Reaganism or the fall of the Western Alliance. "The Republic survives almost anything we do inside the Beltway," he chuckles...
...their heads for long distances would certainly appreciate the possibility of turning knobs even if, in the eyes of Nouvel, it is archaic. May I suggest that 50% of the price of that contraption be given to a program to bring clean water to needy people? Antoine de Torrenté La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
...their heads for long distances would certainly appreciate the possibility of turning knobs even if, in the eyes of Nouvel, it is archaic. May I suggest that 50% of the price of that contraption be given to a program to bring clean water to needy people? Antoine de Torrenté La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
...rising torrent of racist language and publicly expressed racist attitudes may be a sign less that racism is spreading, than that the boundaries of mainstream tolerance are changing. As in the U.S., France has seen an increase in provocative shock content in entertainment and commentary, whether for comic effect or political impact. Interior Minister and presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy drew protests when he used a racially loaded term to denounce young men rioting in the suburbs last year - an outcry that also coincided with his jump in polls. The street patois of those ethnically diverse projects, meanwhile, has also long...