Word: vii
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...International Association of Firefighters to an affirmative-action plan that had been agreed on by the city and an organization of black and Hispanic fire fighters called the Vanguards. The Vanguards charged the city with discrimination in hiring, assigning and promoting fire fighters in violation of both Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and the Constitution. Cleveland, which had unsuccessfully litigated similar issues for eight years, agreed to a courtapproved settlement under which the city was required to give half of all promotions to minority fire fighters. The white-dominated union asked the Supreme Court to overturn the consent...
...twisting dials. With a spacecraft rounding Uranus at 42,000 m.p.h. 2 billion miles away, they prefer the sureness of digital to the romance of analog. And yet it is a small modern pleasure to see waves of the future meet some resistance. The new Lincoln Mark VII LSC has gone back to analog gauges. In the year of old Coke and narrative radio, hail the return of the analog watch...
...Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 states that a person may not be fired for speaking out against what he or she perceives as a discriminatory practice...
Harper, in his charge, accused the Red Sox of violating Title VII, and with subjecting "Blacks, as a class, to different terms and conditions of employment related to fringe benefits accorded only to Caucasian employees...
...VII TONY, INGRID...