Word: wrongfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...major civil rights ruling that brushed aside Administration objections, the Justices decided, 8 to 0, that a lower court had been wrong in preventing a black former bank employee from using statistics to prove that she was the victim of racial discrimination in the bank's promotion practices. As a result, plaintiffs in employment discrimination suits may now point to the number of women or minorities at a workplace or in higher-ranking jobs as evidence that "subjective" employer judgments, like a supervisor's evaluations, had a discriminatory result...
...when Hart re-entered the race, he used the wrong strategy--denying his sleaziness rather than boasting about it. Millions of American men would have voted for a man who admitted he slept with Donna Rice...
...fund- raising parties. Federal thrift regulators last year charged the Texas bank's officers with looting it; two have pleaded guilty to criminal charges in the case. Last year Coelho lobbied for a $5 billion bill to bail out the industry. Coelho has admitted he was wrong to use the yacht and jet; he and the Democrats' campaign committee paid Vernon $48,450 for their...
Donald A. Norman is a noted psychologist, yet like many people he switches on the wrong lights, scalds himself in the shower and stands dumb before the mysteries of VCRs. The culprits, he says, are designers who fail to provide visual cues to the operation of a host of gadgets that influence the quality of life. A look at some things that don' t work and some that...
...largest and the most important business enterprise in the world," declared a presidential commission that undertook to reform the Pentagon's procurement procedures two years ago. It is also a system, said the commission, that is "fundamentally ill" in the way it awards 15 million contracts annually. Just how wrong things have gone at the Pentagon became apparent last week. Operation Ill Wind, an extensive two-year investigation of fraud and bribery in the handling of major purchases, blew into the open, rattling Washington and the nation's military-industrial complex...