Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn's honorary degree from Harvard [June 19] should have been a Doctor of Medicine rather than a Doctor of Letters. He has diagnosed America's illness and prescribed the proper treatment...
...Supreme Court will presumably have to deal with these conflicts, for several pending cases will test the Government's use of preferential treatment in employment. The Communications Workers of America have petitioned the Supreme Court to review a costly agreement between the Federal Government and American Telephone and Telegraph Co. By setting ambitious goals for the promotion of women and minorities, the Government violated seniority rights as well as the 14th Amendment, the union charges. In another case, California building contractors have sued to overturn a requirement of the Public Works Employment Act of 1977 that 10% of the federal...
...Bakke ruling. "It was a landmark occasion, but the court failed to produce a landmark decision," said Yale Law Professor Bruce Ackerman. The key weakness in the court's ruling, he added, was the failure to define what proof of past discrimination would be needed to justify preferential treatment. "The question that wasn't talked about is: What is the role of numbers in proving past discrimination? Do you have to show actual intent to discriminate, or is the fact that there are no blacks in the work force, enough? There is a body of law on this issue...
...movie itself. His series of famed singers and actresses belting out "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" will bring down any house, so carefully honed are his Channings and Ellas. Co-star Hollis McLaren is inevitably overshadowed by Russell's stagewise presence, but the delicate treatment she gives her Crazy Liza perfectly complements her outlandish buddy...
...Levitt has had lengthy psychiatric treatment. Family friends portray him as a disturbed young man who flunked out of one university and dropped out of another, was rejected by the draft on medical grounds, and is capable of having made up the whole kidnaping story...