Word: unwantedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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For nearly a year, Fiat Chairman Gianni Agnelli has been trying to rid Europe's largest private automaker of an unwanted partner: the government of Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi. In 1976 Libya purchased a 15% share of the then troubled company for $320 million and won two seats on Fiat...
By decade's end the unwanted distinction of being the nation's poorest large minority group will pass from blacks to Hispanics. So says a study by Washington's nonprofit Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, which adds that while Hispanic households still earn more than black households, larger family...
Although the mission had a ferocious code name, "Operation Blast Furnace," it was apparently carried out under unwritten rules similar to those observed when federal revenue agents chased down Appalachian bootleggers: the etiquette dictated that no one on either side would really shoot to kill. U.S. troops, though armed with...
An earlier case--which became public in 1983 and which resulted in the punishment of another government professor for sexually harassing a junior faculty member in his department--prompted the University to refine its definition of sexual harassment and to revise and publicize its procedures for handling such misconduct. The...
A 1983 survey on sexual harassment revealed that 34 percent of undergraduate women had experienced some form of sexual harassment, loosely defined as anything from lewd jokes and suggestive comments to unwanted touching or rape. A subsequent survey, which used a stricter definition of harassment, revealed a much smaller percent...