Word: treating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...College's policy is essentially to treat cases of sexual harassment as personnel matters, to be handled discreetly with a minimum of fosse. The rationale is a bit difficult to fathom. It seems largely to be predicated jointly on two beliefs. The first is that only by promising secrecy will the College be able to get the professor's accurate and full account of an incident. And secondly there is the principle that by Harvard, an educational institution, treating the matter secretly, the guilty party will have the opportunity to mend his ways and learn from the experience...
...abolition of juvenile court. The juvenile court system was a proud accomplishment of the Progressive era, a largely admirable attempt to treat children in trouble with extra care and sensitivity. The experiment seems largely to have failed, having helped neither the children nor the society it was supposed to protect. As currently organized, most juvenile judges have virtually unlimited power over what are called status offenses--"crimes" like ungovemability and truancy that are illegal only because of the perpetrator's status as a minor. Paradoxically, investigators have found that juvenile judges are actually more strict with status offenders than with...
...genesis of homosexuality remains uncertain, however, is exactly why society should not get involved. Sexual preferences may well be transmitted generally or early in childhood Penalizing homosexual behavior--or attaching a stigma to it by trying to discourage it--represents the most invidious form of discrimination Pattullo would treat an alternative lifestyle as pitiable and to be discouraged--though its proponents may have had no choice over their preferences...
...White House, the new Administration takes office with one overriding imperative in foreign affairs: to do things differently from its predecessor. In Reagan's case, that meant abandoning Jimmy Carter's vacillating and sometimes mushy moralism and proclaiming a back-to-basics foreign policy. The U.S. would treat the Soviets as outlaws and villains, sternly oppose their expansionism-by force if need be-and consider Moscow's enemies to be friends deserving support...
TULSA. Okla.--Senior women at Oral Roberts University are no longer being held to the usual curfews at midnight during the week and 1 a.m. on weekends. As a special treat, the women will be allowed to stay out 15 minutes later than usual this semester...