Word: united
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some guards downplayed the alleged cases ofharassment, saying that conflict is inevitablebetween co-workers in a guard unit with more than100 employees...
...been blatant--racial problems within theguard unit, stuff has been said to me," said oneBlack guard, who said the word "nigger" had beenused in his presence...
...union just won't let them fire anybody,"said Ronnie Matthews, white guard at Gund Hall whosays he has never seen racial harassment in theguard unit. "And I think the union is part of theproblem...
...project tenants into homeowners with a stake in their community. Bush has paid only lip service to the program, known as hope. Congress last year approved it in principle, but denied it serious funding and required, in a typical cut-the-baby-in-half compromise, that another housing-project unit must be built for each one that is turned over to tenant ownership. The White House budget office has calculated that this scheme would cost about $100,000 a unit, and that tenants as well as taxpayers would be better served by a simple system of vouchers that the poor...
Behind bars, Tyson had his first serious run-in with prison authorities when he threatened to "whup" a guard after they argued in the commissary. Tyson was given four days' solitary in the disciplinary unit, where he was forbidden to work at his job in the cellblock recreation area, for which the ex-champ earns 65 cents an hour. He also had his earliest possible release date pushed back 15 days, to April...