Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eventually, Hopkins left the firm and brought suit, contending that the promotion process had violated Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits job discrimination. Pointing to the terms used to describe her in the written evaluations, she argued that she was a victim of sexual stereotyping by male partners who expected women to be sweet and conciliatory and who bridled at any departure from that image. "To be difficult to work with is somewhat in the eye of the beholder," she says. "We had difficult jobs...
...outstanding shares. Yet later in the week came rumors that a takeover bid was being considered by such candidates as developer Donald Trump and Revlon chairman Ronald Perelman. With a market value of at least $16 billion, Sears is still a long shot as a takeover victim. But analysts think the company would be worth $36 billion if its assets were auctioned off separately...
...also savagely critical of expert forensic witnesses in criminal cases. In short, it is a movie relentlessly true to its own belief that what is too quickly grasped may be misunderstood. Streep's performance is in that vein, awesomely tough-minded. No actress has ever played a victim more austerely. Flat-voiced, pinching off every temptation to high drama, she refuses to force this character on us. Instead, she asks us to search, as she must have had to, for the hard, pure, exemplary and not easily endearing innocence she found in Lindy Chamberlain. We respond...
...while White's experiences inhaling cigarettes from Camels to Newports do not have much relevance to the tobacco industries' policies as a whole, it seems, in this first chapter, that White is attempting to justify his writing of the book. By showing that he too was victim of the manufacturer's ploys, White avoids alienating smokers by appearing to be a "holier than thou" figure...
...soldiers insisted they fired in self-defense, but the Palestinians deny that the undercover troops were ever in danger. Says the father of one victim: "They just shot them dead." Israeli Major General Amram Mitzna, who commands the West Bank, launched an investigation into the Yatta deaths. Insiders say the general was furious: "By shooting, you have exposed yourselves and your identity. You went there to arrest them, and the mission was not accomplished...