Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...racial harassment against her former employer. Among other things, she claimed that she had been asked to do menial tasks because she was black. Speaking for the majority, Kennedy said the statute prohibited "the refusal to enter into a contract" based on race, but not discrimination involving "postformation conduct" under a contract. Sniped dissenting Justice William Brennan: "What the court declines to snatch away with one hand, it takes with the other...
Last week the Department of Energy, which owns Rocky Flats, announced that state environmental officials would henceforth be allowed to inspect its plants and that if any safety violations were uncovered, the operators would be fired. In addition, state safety teams will conduct surprise aerial surveillances. Health and safety, says DOE Deputy Secretary Henson Moore, are ! "the first priority in the operation of any of our facilities...
...extremists prefer an aggressive offense and conduct paramilitary patrols to protect and punish. Waldman describes their crude tactics: "After an Arab attack, we send out an alert, jump into our cars and head for the area. Then we destroy and burn." Already these vigilantes have killed at least 15 Palestinians, while one Jewish settler has been murdered by Arabs. Waldman, who took a sniper's course in the U.S. Army, won't comment on whether he is responsible for any of the deaths, but confides, "Arabs have good reason to fear...
Washington's Marion Barry is besieged by questions about both his personal conduct and the way he runs the city...
With Wright's downfall and Tony Coelho's resignation, Gingrich is at his zenith. A year after he first sent the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct sniffing along a well-laid trail of charges against Wright, the Georgia conservative can proudly say he has had a hand in throwing the Democratic leadership of Congress into turmoil. Characteristically, he is not satisfied. "Let's have an honest House, and not one corrupted by the arrogance of power," he says. "I'm out to break the Democratic machine...