Word: verbalism
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...Clemens, 1991 ended much differently from 1990, when he was ejected in Game four of the AL playoffs against Oakland after getting into a verbal altercation with umpire Terry Cooney and bumping umpire Jim Evans. This time, Boston faded in the stretch as Toronto won the AL East title...
...addition to the verbal attacks, women who speak up about sexual harassment also face the prospect of losing their jobs, the professors...
...object is to find and capture Carmen or one of her gang and restore the stolen treasures. In the version that is airing on PBS, player-detectives decipher a series of verbal clues, then use their knowledge of geography to score points. The top scorer gets to chase Carmen around a large, unmarked map. In the computer version -- which is played with the help of books like a the World Almanac or an atlas -- competitors may be shown an image of Socrates and have to know when he lived in order to move to the next clue. Carmen's trail...
...newspaper's op-ed page carried an influential column labeled "Open Season on Clarence Thomas," in which Williams accused some Judiciary Committee staff members of desperately seeking "mud" to block the nominee. Not until five days later did Post readers learn that Williams was facing charges of verbal sexual harassment filed by female employees of the newspaper...
...crash course made clear, most women and men, especially most + Senators, had only the barest understanding of the power of the law. Under Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guidelines issued in 1980 and unanimously affirmed by the Supreme Court in 1986, sexual harassment includes not just physical but also verbal and "environmental" abuse. Under the law, there are two broadly recognized forms. The first involves a "quid pro quo" in which a worker is compelled to trade sex for professional survival. In 1986 an Ohio woman won a $3.1 million verdict against an employer who invited her to perform oral...