Word: defenders
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...Supreme Court ruled in Griggs v. Duke Power Co. that once an employee could demonstrate that a particular hiring practice had resulted in a "disparate impact" (i.e. a statistical imbalance among members of a particular minority group), the burden of proof shifted to the employer to defend the "business necessity" of the challenged practice...
...former Justice Department official Terry Eastland has noted in Commentary, police departments have been forced to defend requirements that applicants not have criminal records--a standard which has been proven to have a statistical "adverse impact" on Blacks and Hispanics. Complainants have also challenged anti-drug policies of mass transit authorities and physical strength tests of fire departments...
Nothing, except that liberal activist judges have often made it extremely difficult to defend even the most reasonable selection criteria. As a result, many employers institute racial and sex quotas to avert the risk of costly litigation. No adverse impact, no complaints. No complaints, no litigation. Warped interpretations of Griggs, which the Kennedy bill restores, could toss common standards of competence, intelligence and hard work out the window...
...were to be commissioned there], we'd be in the front line. I would be an infantry officer and I would defend the oil fields in northern Saudi Arabia, where the war would most likely start. The media has nicknamed the area the "Tripwire,'" said Nigel W. Jones '91, an ROTC Marine, adding that Marines and Army officers are most likely to be on the front lines in combat...
When the clamor reached a climax, the Soviet President, sitting glumly on a back bench of the tribunal, decided he had heard enough. Gorbachev intervened to defend his embattled Prime Minister. His voice quavering with emotion, he warned against "shaking up all political institutions" in the country. "If someone proves incompetent," said Gorbachev, "let's remove him. But in a normal fashion. Not by pushing him up against the wall." All the "insults and insinuations," he charged, left a "bad odor...