Word: connor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Writing for the Court, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor questioned the constitutionality of setting aside 30 percent of a city's contracts for minority contractors and decided that minority contractors must prove specific instances of past discrimination before they can constitutionally qualify for affirmative action...
...council approved an ordinance setting aside 30% of the dollar amount of its municipal projects for minority-owned construction firms. The council found that although Richmond's population was half black, less than 1% of all public- works contracts had gone to minority firms. But Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, writing for the majority, charged that the city had not specifically proved a level of past discrimination that would support its 30% set-aside rule. Wrote O'Connor: "An amorphous claim that there has been past discrimination in a particular industry cannot justify the use of an unyielding racial quota...
...club he had left in Little Italy, when more than 25 New York City police arrested him. Another phalanx of FBI agents and officers stood by, just in case. He was charged with arranging for a Hell's Kitchen gang called the Westies to gun down John O'Connor, an official of a carpenters' union local in Manhattan, in 1986. The alleged motive: O'Connor had trashed a nonunion construction job at a restaurant that the Gambino $ family controlled. "I give you 3-to-1 odds I beat this case," vowed Gotti, before posting a $100,000 bond the next...
Directed by Pat O'Connor...
...downscale Dangerous Liaisons is the movie's refusal to let the characters acknowledge this edgy subtext. Shanley instead provides a funny, melodramatic hubbub to distract our attention. His busy plotting may require a suspension of incredulity, but he is well served by good actors; by a director, Pat O'Connor, with a taste for the acrid flavors of big-city life; and by his own delight in human eccentricity...