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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Principato complained to the administration after his supervisor questioned him about his union involvement prior to the May 17 support staff union election. Federal labor laws prohibit employers from asking employees whether or not they intend to vote for a union and harassing employees for their union support. Principato went to the administration with that complaint, and also with charges that his supervisor had been harassing him for more than a year...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Suit May Follow Charge Of Anti-Union Harassment | 6/8/1988 | See Source »

When the treaty reached the Senate floor last week, 90 lawmakers were ready to vote yes. A group of Democratic Senators, miffed at Reagan's reinterpretation of the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, has proposed an amendment that would prohibit any future President from reinterpreting the INF accord. But the largest obstacle to speedy approval remained the staunch opposition of a group of right-wing Senators led by North Carolina Republican Jesse Helms. One of Helms' more imaginative objections: that Party General Secretary Gorbachev, because he is not head of state (technically, President Andrei Gromyko is), had no right to sign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West All Roads Lead to Moscow | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

...arms," they proposed a package of what they called interim measures: a ban on antisatellite weapons, a ban on "space-to-earth weapons" (such as lasers mounted on orbiting battle stations) and a "strengthening of the ABM treaty." They suggested adding a new protocol to the pact that would prohibit either side from withdrawing for 15 to 20 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Superpowers: Inside Moves | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

...Runyon decision became a key element in a fabric of court rulings that forbid racial discrimination in all kinds of private transactions. Although the civil rights laws of the 1960s prohibit discrimination involving housing, employment and public accommodations, they leave many areas of life uncovered. Runyon gave plaintiffs the power to sue for discrimination in just such areas -- for example, a refusal by a shopkeeper to sell to blacks -- and, equally important, to collect monetary damages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Play It Again, Says the Court | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

...their groups are also oftenunfairly characterized as discriminatory. "Ourpolicy is to not allow groups who discriminate tobe members of the IFC" so Black frats are not partof it, says Jeff Hornstein, chairman of the MITIFC and president of the predominantly white ZetaPsi. He notes that the IFC does not prohibit sexdiscrimination because fraternities and sororitiesare by definition single...

Author: By Jennifer Griffin, | Title: Harvard Students Go `On Line' In Area Campuses' Black Frats | 4/29/1988 | See Source »

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